Margaret atwood biography childhood schizophrenia

Margaret Eleanor Atwood (born November 18, 1939) is a Canadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, teacher, environmental activist, and inventor.

Parnas 'Schizophrenia, consciousness, and the self.' Schizophrenia Bulletin, Vol. 29,.

His mother had suffered from schizophrenia, and Ryunosuke had feared his whole life that he would inherit her madness.

Mental Illness In Margaret Atwood's Stone Mattress.

Excerpt from Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood.

Changing at- titudes to mental illness, for example, can be observed in the type of the Mad. Woman, particularly the Mad Wife.

Since 1961, she has published 18 books of poetry, 18 novels, 11 books of non-fiction, nine collections of short fiction, eight children's books, and two graphic novels, and a number of small press editions of both poetry and fiction.

Atwood has won numerous awards and honors for her writing, including two Booker Prizes, the Arthur C. Clarke Award, the Governor General's Award, the Franz Kafka Prize, Princess of Asturias Awards, and the National Book Critics and PEN Center USA Lifetime Achievement Awards.

A number of her works have been adapted for film and television.

Atwood's works encompass a variety of themes including gender and identity, religion and myth, the power of language, climate change, and "power politics".

Many of her poems are inspired by myths and fairy tales which interested her from a