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Alice Munro

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Alice Munro
Munro in 2006
Munro in 2006
BornAlice Ann Laidlaw
(1931-07-10)10 July 1931
Wingham, Ontario, Canada
Died13 May 2024(2024-05-13) (aged 92)
Port Hope, Ontario, Canada
OccupationAuthor
LanguageEnglish
NationalityCanadian
CitizenshipCanada
Alma materUniversity of Western Ontario[1]
GenreShort stories
Notable awardsGovernor General's Award (1968, 1978, 1986)
Giller Prize (1998, 2004)
Man Booker International Prize (2009)
Nobel Prize in Literature (2013)
SpouseJames Munro (1951–1972)
Gerald Fremlin (1976–2013, his death)
Children3

Alice Ann Munro (10 July 1931 – 13 May 2024) was a Canadian writer of short stories. Munro received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2013.[2] She was the first Canadian to win the award.[3]

Munro was born Alice Ann Laidlaw in Wingham, Ontario. Her father, Robert Eric Laidlaw, was a fox and mink farmer,[4] and later turned to turkey farming.[5] Her mother, Anne Clarke Laidlaw (née Chamney), was a schoolteacher.[6]

Munro began writing as a teenager, publishing her first story, "The Dimensions of a Shadow", in 1950 while studying English and journalism at the University of Western Ontario on a two-year scholarship.[7] She left college in 1951 to marry her friend James Munro.[8]

In her stories Munro has changed the way people write short stories. Her stories usually start in a place where people do not expect. After that, the stories go back and forward in time.[9]

Her first collection of short stories, Dance of the Happy Shades, was published by Ryerson Press in 1968. It won the 1968 Governor General's Award for Fiction.

Munro's most recent collection of short stories, Dear Life, was published in 2012 by McClelland and Stewart.

Munro died at her home in Port Hope, Ontario on 13 May 2024 from problems caused by dementia at the age of 92.[10][11]

References

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  1. ↑ Preface. Dance of the Happy Shades. Alice Munro. First Vintage contemporaries Edition, August 1998. ISBN 0-679-78151-X Vintage Books, A Division of Random House, Inc. New York City.
  2. ↑ Allardice, Lisa (6 December 2013). "Nobel prizewinner Alice Munro: 'It's a wonderful thing for the short story'" – via www.theguardian.com.
  3. ↑ "Nobel Prize-winning author Alice Munro dies aged 92". DW. 14 May 2024. Retrieved 29 May 2025.
  4. ↑ McCulloch, Jeanne; Simpson, Mona (Summer 1994). "The Art of Fiction No. 137". The Paris Review. No. 131. ISSN 0031-2037. Retrieved 5 March 2023.
  5. ↑ Gaunce, Julia; Mayr, Suzette; LePan, Don; Mather, Marjorie; Miller, Bryanne, eds. (2012). "Alice Munro". The Broadview Anthology of Short Fiction (2nd ed.). Buffalo, New York: Broadview Press. ISBN 978-1554811410.
  6. ↑ Taylor, Catherine (10 October 2013). "For Alice Munro, small is beautiful". The Daily Telegraph. Archived from the original on 12 January 2022.
  7. ↑ Jason Winders (10 October 2013). "Alice Munro, LLD'76, wins 2013 Nobel Prize in Literature". Western News. The University of Western Ontario. Archived from the original on 2 March 2014. Retrieved 10 October 2013.
  8. ↑ "Alice Munro". Biography. Archived from the original on 29 March 2023. Retrieved 15 May 2024.
  9. ↑ Alice Munro Wins Nobel Prize in Literature, by Julie Bosmans, The New York Times, 10 October 2013
  10. ↑ "Alice Munro, Canadian author who won Nobel Prize for Literature, dies at 92". The Globe and Mail. 14 May 2024. Retrieved 14 May 2024.
  11. ↑ "Alice Munro, Canadian author who mastered the short story, dead at 92". CBC News. 14 May 2024. Retrieved 14 May 2024.




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