Alice Ann Munro (/ˈælɨs ˌæn mʌnˈroʊ/, née Laidlaw /ˈleɪdlɔː/; born 10 July 1931) is a Canadian author writing in English. Munro's work has been described as having revolutionized the architecture of short stories, especially in its tendency to move forward and backward in time. Her stories have been said to "embed more than announce, reveal more than parade."Munro's fiction is most often set in her native Huron County in southwestern Ontario. Her stories explore human complexities in an uncomplicated prose style. Munro's writing has established her as "one of our greatest contemporary writers of fiction," or, as Cynthia Ozick put it, "our Chekhov." Munro is the recipient of many literary accolades, including the 2013 Nobel Prize in Literature for her work as "master of the contemporary short story", and the 2009 Man Booker International Prize for her lifetime body of work. She is also a three-time winner of Canada's Governor General's Award for fiction and was the recipient of the Writers' Trust of Canada's 1996 Marian Engel Award, as well as the 2004 Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize for Runaway.
[on learning she had been awarded the 2013 Nobel Prize in Literature] I am dazed by all the attention and affection that has been coming my way this morning. When I began writing there was a very small community of Canadian writers and little attention was paid by the world. Now Canadian writers are are read, admired and respected around the globe. I'm so thrilled to be this year's recipient [and] hope this brings further recognition to the short story form.
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Fact
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She was the first Canadian to win the Nobel Prize for literature.
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She started writing as a stay-at-home mother with three young daughters. She didn't have the uninterrupted time to devote to a novel, so she wrote short stories.
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Her literary inspirations include Eudora Welty, Flannery O'Connor, Katherine Anne Porter, Carson McCullers, and Anton Chekhov.
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Pictured on a Canadian 'permanent' commemorative stamp issued 10 July 2015. Price on day of issue was 85¢.
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Won the 2013 Nobel Prize in Literature.
Writer
Title
Year
Status
Character
Runaway
story announced
Julieta
2016
basado en "Destino", "Pronto" y "Silencio" de
Hateship Loveship
2013
short story "Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage"
Canaan
2008
story
Away from Her
2006
short story "The Bear Came Over the Mountain"
Edge of Madness
2002
short story
Lives of Girls & Women
1994
TV Movie novel
Boys and Girls
1983
Short story
The Newcomers
1977
TV Series
The Ottawa Valley
1974
TV Short story
Self
Title
Year
Status
Character
Nobelstudion
2013
TV Series
Herself
Turning Pages: The Life and Literature of Margaret Atwood
$250,000
