Alice Munro
10 July 1931 – 13 May 2024
Alice Munro was a Canadian writer known almost exclusively for short fiction, much of it set in small-town southwestern Ontario. Her collections, beginning with Dance of the Happy Shades in 1968, won three Governor General's Awards and the Man Booker International Prize. In 2013 she became the first Canadian writer to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature.
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Life events
Born Alice Ann Laidlaw to a fox and mink farmer and a schoolteacher.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgShe attended on a scholarship for two years and left without completing a degree.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgThe couple had three surviving daughters.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgShe and her husband ran the bookshop together.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgHer first collection won the Governor General's Award for English-language fiction.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgThe linked stories are often read as her closest approach to a novel.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgShe married the geographer Gerald Fremlin in 1976 and settled in Clinton, Ontario.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgThe prize recognised her body of work in short fiction.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgThe Swedish Academy described her as a master of the contemporary short story.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgShe died at the age of 92 after years of declining health.
Source: en.wikipedia.org