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en-wikipedia-org-3930		Margaret Atwood - Wikipedia			.html	text/html	12748	1779	72	Atwood realized she wanted to write professionally when she was 16.[10] In 1957, she began studying at Victoria College in the University of Toronto, where she published poems and articles in Acta Victoriana, the college literary journal, and participated in the sophomore theatrical tradition of The Bob Comedy Revue.[11] Her professors included Jay Macpherson and Northrop Frye. Having been a symbol of desolation, it's become a symbol of hope."[107] Atwood has been chair of the Writers' Union of Canada and helped to found the Canadian English-Speaking chapter of PEN International, a group originally started to free politically imprisoned writers.[108] She held the position of PEN Canada president in the mid 1980s[109] and was the 2017 recipient of the PEN Center USA's Lifetime Achievement Award.[110] Despite calls for a boycott by Gazan students, Atwood visited Israel and accepted the $1,000,000 Dan David Prize along with Indian author Amitav Ghosh at Tel Aviv University in May 2010.[111] Atwood commented that "we don't do cultural boycotts."[112]	./cache/en-wikipedia-org-3930.html	./txt/en-wikipedia-org-3930.txt