On the top of my desk there are initials, carved into the wood, and dates...This carving, done with a pencil dug many times into the warn varnish of the desk, has the pathos of all vanished civilizations. It's like a handprint on stone. Whoever made this was once alive.

More recently Atwood has continued her exploration of the implications of Canadian literary themes for Canadian identity in lectures such as Strange Things: The Malevolent North in Canadian Literature (1995). Davidson.

She is a winner of the Arthur C. She is among the most-honoured authors of fiction in recent history. While Margaret Atwood is best known for her work as a novelist Margaret Atwood is also a poet having publiMargaret Atwoodd fifteen books of poetry to date.