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}} Margaret Eleanor Atwood, (born November 18, 1939) is a Canadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, and environmental activist. She is a winner of the Arthur C. Clarke Award and Prince of Asturias Award for Literature, has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize five times, winning once, and has been a finalist for the Governor General's Award several times, winning twice. In 2001 she was inducted into Canada's Walk of Fame.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Canada's Walk of Fame Inducts Margaret Atwood )〕 She is also a founder of the Writers' Trust of Canada, a non-profit literary organization that seeks to encourage Canada's writing community.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.writerstrust.com/About.aspx )〕 Among innumerable contributions to Canadian literature, she was a founding trustee of the Griffin Poetry Prize.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.griffinpoetryprize.com/about/trustees/ )〕 Atwood is also the inventor, and developer, of the LongPen and associated technologies that facilitate the remote robotic writing of documents. She is the Co-Founder and a Director of Syngrafii Inc. (formerly Unotchit Inc.), a company that she started in 2004 to develop, produce and distribute the LongPen technology. She holds various patents related to the LongPen technologies. While she is best known for her work as a novelist, she has also published fifteen books of poetry.〔 (【引用サイトリンク】 Margaret Atwood )〕〔 〕 Many of her poems have been inspired by myths and fairy tales, which have been interests of hers from an early age.〔Oates, Joyce Carol. 'Margaret Atwood: Poet', ''The New York Times'', May 21, 1978〕 Atwood has published short stories in ''Tamarack Review, Alphabet, Harper's, CBC Anthology, Ms., Saturday Night'', and many other magazines. She has also published four collections of stories and three collections of unclassifiable short prose works. == Early life == Born in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, Atwood was the second of three children〔(Margaret Atwood: Queen of CanLit ). CBC Archives. Retrieved April 6, 2011.〕 of Margaret Dorothy (née Killam), a former dietitian and nutritionist from Woodville, Nova Scotia〔Hazel Foote, ''The Homes of Woodville'', M.A. Jorgenson, Woodville, NS (1997), p. 109〕 and Carl Edmund Atwood, an entomologist.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 Luminarium Margaret Atwood Page )〕 Because of her father’s ongoing research in forest entomology, Atwood spent much of her childhood in the backwoods of northern Quebec and traveling back and forth between Ottawa, Sault Ste. Marie, and Toronto. She did not attend school full-time until she was eight years old. She became a voracious reader of literature, Dell pocketbook mysteries, Grimm's Fairy Tales, Canadian animal stories, and comic books. She attended Leaside High School in Leaside, Toronto, and graduated in 1957.〔 Atwood began writing plays and poems at the age of six. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Margaret Atwood」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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