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Does literature have a more graceful innovator than Margaret Atwood? Poet, novelist, short story writer,Ugg Classic Tall On Sale, essayist,Ugg Bailey Button, children’s author,Ugg Classic Tall 5815, critic — throughout her career, she has regarded writing as an endeavor through which she might take on, literally, anything. Atwood was born in Ottawa, and graduated from the University of Toronto in 1961. Her first book, the poetry collection “Double Persephone,” was self-published in the same year — a signifier, perhaps, of things to come. But it was really with the 1969 publication of her first novel, “The Edible Woman,” and especially the release three years later of “Surfacing,” that she began to attract a wide readership.
Such works have often been seen as feminist, a reading Atwood rejects because she was not writing with a particular social or political agenda in mind. This is essential in understanding her approach to literature; for Atwood, the most important thing has always been the story,Ugg Bailey Button, which can (and even should) be idea driven, but which first and foremost is an expression of character, of narrative.
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In recent years, Atwood has embraced the digital landscape, seeing it as a way for writers to get their work into the world. In 2006, she invented the long pen,Ugg Bailey Button Sale, a device by which authors,Ugg Bailey Button On Sale, and others, could sign books and documents remotely, and since 2010,Uggs Bailey Button, she has been an enthusiastic user of social media. Last year, she hooked up with the digital publisher Byliner to produce a new work of speculative fiction,Ugg Bailey Button Boots, “Positron,” as a serial. She is also collaborating with Naomi Alderman on another digital serial, “The Happy Zombie Sunrise Home,” on the Toronto-based website Wattpad.com.
For Atwood, this is not so much a matter of innovation as it is one of survival; as she likes to say, technology is only important as a tool. The key remains, as it has always been, the writer’s voice, the writer’s vision — and it is for her unflagging faith in this that we present her with the 2012 Los Angeles Times Innovator’s Award.