The long-awaited memoirs of one of our most praised and influential cultural figures.

How does one of the greatest storytellers of our time write her own life?

Dive into Margaret Atwood’s creative universe: a celebration of life, art, and everything that connects them. The greatest writer of our time tells her story.

Raised by scientifically minded and independent-spirited parents, Margaret Atwood spent much of her childhood in the remote forests of northern Quebec, far from social conventions. That nomadic and unbound childhood marked the beginning of an uncommon path, which she narrates with clarity, irony, and wit, weaving together the decisive moments of her life with the works that have transformed contemporary storytelling, such as Ojo de gato and El cuento de la criada. Poets, actors, bears, bohemian figures, and almost supernatural characters parade by, seeming to come straight from her fictions. With her characteristic sharpness and keen insight, Atwood reveals the delicate ties between experience and creation, and between reality and the written word. She also opens an intimate window into her relationship with the charismatic writer Graeme Gibson and the emotional landscapes that nourished her writing.

Bright, revealing, and deeply human, Libro de mis vidas is not only the chronicle of a unique journey but also a keen reflection on what it means to write, remember, and transform experience into literature. A fascinating testimony from one of the most influential voices of our time.

“Margaret Atwood has titled her long-awaited memoir Libro de mis vidas because that is exactly what it is: the lively, generous, and good-humored account of the lives that befell someone always ready to downplay herself: from a wild childhood to a wandering youth; from awakening as the poet recently awarded the Premio Internacional Joan Margarit to the acclaim of the novelist; and from maturity as the prophetic author of El cuento de la criada to the years of widowhood after the death in 2019 of her second husband, Graeme Gibson, companion of almost a lifetime and father of her daughter. The book is also the story of a lost time: the history of the postwar generation and the evolution of customs in the second half of the twentieth century, the triumphs and trials of feminism, and those Canadian letters that emerged, thanks to her and her contemporaries, in the shadow of the hegemonic United States.” – Iker Seisdedos, El País