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Alice Munro

1931 - Today

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Alice Ann Munro (; née Laidlaw ; born 10 July 1931) is a Canadian short story writer who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2013. Munro's work has been described as revolutionizing 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 has displayed "inarguable virtuosity". Her stories have been said to "embed more than announce, reveal more than parade".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 1,981,265 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.

Memorability Metrics

  • 2.0M

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  • 68.48

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 103

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.96

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.53

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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

Page views of Alice Munros by language

Over the past year Alice Munro has had the most page views in the with 203,484 views, followed by Spanish (33,562), and German (23,831). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Hakka (194.92%), West Frisian (74.34%), and Sicilian (68.68%)

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.

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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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