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Margaret Atwood

is the author of more than forty works, including fiction, poetry and critical essays, and her books have been published in over thirty-five countries. Of her novels,

The Blind Assassin

won the 2000 Booker Prize and

Alias Grace

won the

Giller

Prize in Canada and the

Premio

Mondello

in Italy. Her eleventh and most recent novel,

Oryx and Crake,

was published in 2003. In 2005 she was the recipient of the Edinburgh Book Festival Enlightenment Award, for a distinguished contribution to world literature and thought. In 2008, Margaret Atwood was awarded the Prince of Asturias Prize for Literature in Spain. She lives in Toronto.

ALSO BY MARGARET ATWOOD

FICTION

The Edible Woman (1969)

Surfacing (1972)

Lady Oracle (1976)

Dancing Girls (1977)

Life Before Man (1979)

Bodily Harm (1981)

Murder in the Dark (1983)

Bluebeards Egg (1983)

The Handmaids Tale (1985)

Cat's Eye (1988)

Wilderness Tips (1991)

Good Bones (1992)

The Robber Bride (1993)

Bones Murder (1995)

Alias Grace (1996)

The Blind Assassin (2000)

Oryx and Crake (2003)

The Penelopiad (2005)

The Tent (2006)

Moral Disorder (2006)

The Year of the Flood (2009)

FOR CHILDREN

Up in the Tree (1978)

Anna's Pet

[With Joyce Barkhouse]

(1980)

For the Birds (1990)

Princess Prunella and the Purple

Peanut (1995)

Rude Ramsay and the Roaring

Radishes (2003)

Bashful Bob and Doleful Darinda

(2004)

NON-FICTION

Survival: A Thematic Guide to

Canadian Literature (1972)

Days of the Rebels 1815-1840 (1977)

Second Words (1982)

Strange Things: The Malevolent

North in Canadian Literature (1996)

Two Solicitudes: Conversations [with

Victor-Levy Beaulieu] (1998)

Curious Pursuits: Occasional Writing

(2005)

Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of

Wealth (2008)

POETRY

Double Persephone (1961)

The Circle Game (1966)

The Animals in That Country (1968)

The Journals of Susanna Moodie

(1970)

Procedures for Underground (1970)

Power Politics (1971)

You Are Happy (1974)

Selected Poems (1976)

Two-Headed Poems (1978)

True Stories (1981)

Interlunar (1984)

Selected Poems II: Poems Selected

and New 1976-1986 (1986)

Morning in the Burned House (1995)

Eating Fire: Selected Poetry

1965-1995 (1998)

The Door (2007)

MARGARET

NEGOTIATING WITH THE DEAD

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Published by Virago Press in 2003 Reprinted 2003, 2005, 2007 (twice), 2008, 2009

First published by Cambridge University Press 2002

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