Alice Ann Laidlaw (1931-07-10)10 July 1931 Wingham, Ontario, Canada
Died
13 May 2024(2024-05-13) (aged 92) Port Hope, Ontario, Canada
Occupation
Short-story writer
Language
English
Alma mater
The University of Western Ontario
Genre
Short fiction, short story cycle, literary fiction
Notable awards
Governor General's Award (1968, 1978, 1986) Giller Prize (1998, 2004) Man Booker International Prize (2009) Nobel Prize in Literature (2013)
Spouse
James Munro
(m. 1951; div. 1972)
; d. 2016[1]
Gerald Fremlin
(m. 1976; died 2013)
Children
4
Alice Ann Munro (/mənˈroʊ/; née Laidlaw/ˈleɪdlɔː/; 10 July 1931 – 13 May 2024) was a Canadian short story writer who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2013. Munro's work has been described as revolutionizing the architecture of the short story, especially in its tendency to move forward and backward in time,[2] and with integrated short fiction cycles, in which she has displayed "inarguable virtuosity".[3] Her stories have been said to "embed more than announce, reveal more than parade".[4]
Munro's fiction is most often set in her native Huron County in southwestern Ontario.[5] Her stories explore human complexities in an uncomplicated prose style.[6] Her writing has established Munro as "one of our greatest contemporary writers of fiction", or, as Cynthia Ozick put it, "our Chekhov".[7] Aside from the Nobel Prize, Munro received many awards for her work as "master of the contemporary short story",[8] and the 2009 Man Booker International Prize for her lifetime body of work. She was also a three-time winner of Canada's Governor General's Award for Fiction, and received the Writers' Trust of Canada's 1996 Marian Engel Award and the 2004 Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize for Runaway.[8][9][10][11]
^Bosman, Julie (10 October 2013). "Alice Munro Wins Nobel Prize in Literature". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Archived from the original on 9 November 2017. Retrieved 5 March 2023.
^Lynch, Gerald (2001). The One and the Many: English-Canadian Short Story Cycles. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. p. xiv. doi:10.3138/9781442681941. ISBN 0-8020-3511-6.
^W. H. New. "Literature in English". The Canadian Encyclopedia. Archived from the original on 18 August 2019. Retrieved 18 August 2019.
^Marchand, Philip (29 August 2009). "She'll Curl Your Hair". The National Post. Toronto: CanWest MediaWorks INC. p. 36. Retrieved 14 May 2024 – via Newspapers.com.
^Meyer, Michael. "Alice Munro". Meyer Literature. Archived from the original on 12 December 2007. Retrieved 14 May 2024.
^Merkin, Daphne (24 October 2004). "Northern Exposures". The New York Times Magazine. Archived from the original on 10 March 2013. Retrieved 25 February 2008.
^ ab"The Nobel Prize in Literature 2013 – Press Release" (PDF). 10 October 2013. Archived (PDF) from the original on 12 October 2013. Retrieved 10 October 2013.
^Bosman, Julie (10 October 2013). "Alice Munro Wins Nobel Prize in Literature". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 9 November 2017. Retrieved 10 October 2013.
^"Alice Munro wins Man Booker International prize". The Guardian. 27 May 2009. Archived from the original on 8 March 2021. Retrieved 10 December 2016.
^"Past Writers' Trust Engel/Findley Award Winners". Archived from the original on 8 April 2014. Retrieved 7 April 2014.
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