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2009. Published in English. 201. Pages. 188. ISBN. 9783100331823. Alice is a 2009 short story collection by the German writer Judith Hermann. It was shortlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize.
9. Juli 2018 · So if you’ve been too intimidated to dive into this incredible writer’s formidable backlog, why not ease in with some no-commitment short stories? You won’t even have to buy a book. Below, you can read the openings of 25 Munro stories to see which one strikes your fancy—you could browse chronologically, or if you need a more ...
This is a list of short stories written by Alice Munro. It includes stories that were published in single-author collections (books), the first story ever published, "The Dimensions of a Shadow" (1950), and other stories having appeared elsewhere.
31. Jan. 2024 · It’s a collection of linked short stories, all to do with the Ontario childhood of a girl named Del (who happens to closely resemble Munro). It’s also the best book about growing up that I ...
- Early Life and Education
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- Writing
- Personal Life
- Legacy
- Works
- Selected Awards and Honours
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Munro was born Alice Ann Laidlaw in Wingham, Ontario. Her father, Robert Eric Laidlaw, was a fox and mink farmer, and later turned to turkey farming. Her mother, Anne Clarke Laidlaw (née Chamney), was a schoolteacher. She was of Irish and Scottish descent; her father was a descendant of Scottish poet James Hogg, the Ettrick Shepherd. Munro began wr...
Munro's highly acclaimed first collection of stories, Dance of the Happy Shades (1968), won the Governor General's Award, then Canada's highest literary prize. That success was followed by Lives of Girls and Women (1971), a collection of interlinked stories. In 1978, Munro's collection of interlinked stories Who Do You Think You Are? was published....
Many of Munro's stories are set in Huron County, Ontario. Strong regional focus is one of her fiction's features. Asked after she won the Nobel Prize, "What can be so interesting in describing small town Canadian life?", she replied: "You just have to be there." Another feature is an omniscient narrator. Many compare her small-town settings to writ...
Munro married James Munro in 1951.Their daughters Sheila, Catherine, and Jenny were born in 1953, 1955, and 1957, respectively; Catherine died the day of her birth due to a kidney dysfunction. In 1963, the Munros moved to Victoria, where they opened Munro's Books, a popular bookstore still in business. In 1966, their daughter Andrea was born.Alice ...
Munro's work has been described as having revolutionized the architecture of the short story, especially in its tendency to move forward and backward in time, and with integrated short fiction cycles, in which she displayed "inarguable virtuosity". Her stories have been said to "embed more than announce, reveal more than parade". Munro was seen as ...
Original short story collections
1. Dance of the Happy Shades – 1968 (winner of the 1968 Governor General's Award for Fiction) 2. Lives of Girls and Women – 1971 (winner of the Canadian Bookseller's Award) 3. Something I've Been Meaning to Tell You– 1974 4. Who Do You Think You Are? – 1978 (winner of the 1978 Governor General's Award for Fiction; also published as The Beggar Maid: Stories of Flo and Rose; short-listed for the Booker Prize for Fiction in 1980) 5. The Moons of Jupiter – 1982 (nominated for a Governor General's...
Short story compilations
1. Selected Stories (later retitled Selected Stories 1968–1994 and A Wilderness Station: Selected Stories, 1968–1994) – 1996 2. No Love Lost– 2003 3. Vintage Munro– 2004 4. Alice Munro's Best: A Selection of Stories – Toronto 2006 / Carried Away: A Selection of Stories – New York 2006; both 17 stories (spanning 1977–2004) with an introduction by Margaret Atwood 5. My Best Stories– 2009 6. New Selected Stories– 2011 7. Lying Under the Apple Tree. New Selected Stories– 2014 8. Family Furnishing...
Awards
1. Governor General's Literary Award for English language fiction (1968, 1978, 1986) 2. Canadian Booksellers Award for Lives of Girls and women(1971) 3. Canada-Australia Literary Prize, inaugural prize (1977) 4. Shortlisted for the annual (UK) Booker Prize for Fiction (1980) for The Beggar Maid 5. The Writers' Trust of Canada's Marian Engel Award(1986) for her body of work 6. Trillium Book Award for Friend of My Youth (1991), The Love of a Good Woman (1999) and Dear Life(2013) 7. WH Smith Lit...
Honours
1. 1993: Royal Society of Canada's Lorne Pierce Medal 2. 1997: Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters 3. 2005: Medal of Honor for Literature from the U.S. National Arts Club 4. 2010: Government of France – Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters 5. 2014: Silver coin released by the Royal Canadian Mintin honour of Munro's Nobel Prize win 6. 2015: Postage stamp released by Canada Postin honour of Munro's Nobel Prize win
Alice Munro at IMDbAlice Munro collected news and commentary at The Guardian10. Okt. 2013 · Your Alice Munro Starter Kit. by Lara Southern. Oct. 10, 2013. On Thursday,Canadian author Alice Munroe won the 2013 Nobel Prize for Literature. Only the 13th woman in the award's history to...
10. Okt. 2013 · Alice Munro, 'Master' Of The Short Story, Wins Literature Nobel Munro's short-story collections include Dance of the Happy Shades, The Moons of Jupiter and, most recently, Dear Life....
