WRITER

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 2,742,643 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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  • 103

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  • 7.96

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  • 5.53

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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 12. Before her are Donald Sutherland, Alberto Fujimori, Fethullah Gülen, Peter Higgs, Paul Auster, and Anouk Aimée. After her are Ismail Kadare, Sven-Göran Eriksson, Vittorio Emanuele, Prince of Naples, Ismail Haniyeh, O. J. Simpson, and Arno Allan Penzias.

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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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