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Alice Munro

1931 - 2024

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Alice Ann Munro ( mən-ROH; née Laidlaw LAYD-law; 10 July 1931 – 13 May 2024) was a Canadian short story writer who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2013. Her work tends to move forward and backward in time, with integrated short story cycles. Munro's fiction is most often set in her native Huron County in southwestern Ontario. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alice Munro has received more than 2,718,807 page views. Her biography is available in 103 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 100 in 2019). Alice Munro is the 390th most popular writer (down from 291st in 2019), the 12th most popular biography from Canada (down from 11th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Canadian Writer.

Alice Munro is a Canadian short story writer who has won the Nobel Prize in Literature. She is most famous for her short stories, which are often about ordinary people and their lives.

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Notable Works

The moons of Jupiter
Fiction
WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE® IN LITERATURE 2013 In these piercingly lovely and endlessly surprising stories by one of the most acclaimed current practitioners of the art of fiction, many things happen: there are betrayals and reconciliations, love affairs consummated and mourned. But the true events in The Moons Of Jupiter are the ways in which the characters are transformed over time, coming to view their past selves with an anger, regret, and infinite compassion that communicate themselves to us with electrifying force.
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Open Secrets
1994
Lives of Girls and Women
1971
The love of a good woman
1998
The Beggar Maid
1977
The progress of love
1986
Lives of Girls and Women
Fiction in English, Fiction, Young women
The book is a collection of several short stories, describing the struggles of growing up, which Del, the protagonist is confronted with. The book is a description of the initiation she is undergoing through out the process of turning from a girl to a woman.
1971
Who do you think you are?
Social life and customs, Women, Fiction
Interweaving stories tell of the evolving bond between practical, narrow-minded Flo and her stepdaughter Rose, who manages to escape her small town life to achieve an equivocal success in the larger world.
1977
The Love of a Good Woman
National Book Critics Circle Award Winner, award:national_book_critics_circle_award=1998, award:national_book_critics_circle_award=fiction
In eight new stories, a master of the form extends and magnifies her great themes - the vagaries of love, the passion that leads down unexpected paths, the chaos hovering just under the surface of things, and the strange, often comical desires of the human heart. Time stretches out in some of the stories: a man and a woman look back forty years to the summer they met - the summer, as it turns out, that the true nature of their lives was revealed. In others time is telescoped: a young girl finds in the course of an evening that the mother she adores, and whose fluttery sexuality she hopes to emulate, will not sustain her - she must count on herself. Some choices are made - in a will, in a decision to leave home - with irrevocable and surprising consequences. At other times disaster is courted or barely skirted; when a mother has a startling dream about her baby; when a woman, driving her grandchildren to visit the lakeside haunts of her youth, starts a game that could have dangerous consequences.
1998
Runaway
Women, Fiction, relationships
Runaway is a book of short stories by Alice Munro. First published in 2004 by McClelland and Stewart, it was awarded that year's Giller Prize and Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize. Contains: Runaway Chance Soon Silence Passion Trespasses Tricks Powers
2004
The View from Castle Rock
literary fiction, Immigrants in fiction, Genealogy
"In stories that are more personal than any she's written before, Alice Munro pieces her family's history into gloriously imagined fiction. Other stories take place in more familiar Munro territory, the town and countryside around Lake Huron, where the past shows through the present and strong emotions stir beneath the surface of ordinary coming and goings. Evocative, gripping, sexy, unexpected - these stories reflect a depth and richness of experience" -- publisher website (May 2007).
2006
Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage
Fiction, Marriage, Nursing homes
Alice Munro has long been heralded for her penetrating, lyrical prose, and in "The Bear Came Over the Mountain" -- the basis for Sarah Polley's film Away From Her -- her prodigious talents are once again on display. As she follows Grant, a retired professor whose wife Fiona begins gradually to lose her memory and drift away from him, we slowly see how a lifetime of intimate details can create a marriage, and how mysterious the bonds of love really are.From the Trade Paperback edition.
1998

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Alice Munro ranks 390 out of 7,302. Before her are Frans Eemil Sillanpää, Mika Waltari, Einhard, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Gregory of Tours, and Attar of Nishapur. After her are Aulus Cornelius Celsus, Sándor Márai, Ali-Shir Nava'i, Ghalib, Sándor Petőfi, and Erich von Däniken.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1931, Alice Munro ranks 18. Before her are Raymond Kopa, Robert Duvall, Philip Kotler, Chun Doo-hwan, Anita Ekberg, and Monica Vitti. After her are Roger Penrose, Annie Girardot, Thomas Bernhard, Josef Masopust, Anatoly Dyatlov, and Desmond Tutu. Among people deceased in 2024, Alice Munro ranks 8. Before her are Mário Zagallo, Daniel Kahneman, Donald Sutherland, Peter Higgs, Paul Auster, and Anouk Aimée. After her are Ismail Kadare, Vittorio Emanuele, Prince of Naples, O. J. Simpson, Arno Allan Penzias, Françoise Hardy, and Sebastián Piñera.

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In Canada

Among people born in Canada, Alice Munro ranks 12 out of 1,622. Before her are Justin Trudeau (1971), James Cameron (1954), Donald Sutherland (1935), Frank Gehry (1929), Erving Goffman (1922), and Lucy Maud Montgomery (1874). After her are Christopher Plummer (1929), Marshall McLuhan (1911), Margaret Atwood (1939), David Cronenberg (1943), James Naismith (1861), and Glenn Gould (1932).

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Among WRITERS In Canada

Among writers born in Canada, Alice Munro ranks 2. Before her are Lucy Maud Montgomery (1874). After her are Margaret Atwood (1939), Saul Bellow (1915), Brian Tracy (1944), A. E. van Vogt (1912), David Morrell (1943), Anne Carson (1950), Shulamith Firestone (1945), Gabrielle Roy (1909), Mazo de la Roche (1879), and Louise Penny (1958).

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