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Margaret Atwood is a Canadian writer. She was born in Ottawa, Ontario in 1939 as the second of three children. Her father, Carl Edmund Atwood, was a zoologist and her mother, Margaret Dorothy Killiam, used to work as a nutritionist. From the age of sixteen Margaret Atwood studied at University of Toronto and later at Harvard. In the 1980s she spent some time in Germany, England and France. Today she lives in Toronto. (cf. Quimbaya 2011: 1-2)

Atwood has published works of several literary genres including science fiction, speculative fiction, historical fiction and realistic fiction. Many of her books including Oryx and Crake treat science as an important topic. She affirms that this is related to her father being a scientist and interesting her in this field. Other issues her books often deal with are the power of language, the necessity of storytelling, religion, feminism, power and truth. Her novel Oryx and Crake was published in 2003. (cf. Quimbaya 2011: 1-2)

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