Atwood, Margaret [Eleanor]

Zusammenfassung

»There was a great advantage to being a Canadian back in 1956, the year I started writing in a manner I then considered serious: there was no heritage of intimidating geniuses looming above you as you wrote […]. There were a few Canadian writers then, but with their usual modesty the Canadians hid them from view, and you had to dig for them at the very backs of bookstores, among the maple syrup cookbooks and the autumn scenery. All that has now changed.« Was Margaret Atwood hier anläßlich einer der zahlreichen Preisverleihungen (zuletzt der Booker Prize 2000) übergeht, ist, daß sie selber wie niemand sonst zu der bemerkenswerten »Canadian Renaissance« seit den 1960er Jahren, die Kanada auf die literarische Weltkarte setzte, beigetragen hat.

Geb. 18. 11. 1939 in Ottawa, Kanada