name: Alice Munro
birth_date: 1931-07-10 00:00:00
death_date: 2024-05-13 00:00:00
genres: Fiction, Short Stories
influences: Richard Ford, Carson McCullers, Edna O'Brien, James Agee, Flannery O'Connor, Peter Taylor, Anton Chekhov, William Trevor, William Maxwell, Katherine Anne Porter, Kath, Eudora Welty, Joyce Carol Oates
avg_rating: 3.91
ratings_count: 212780
about: Collections of short stories of noted Canadian writer Alice Munro of life in rural Ontario include Dance of the Happy Shades (1968) and Moons of Jupiter (1982); for these and vivid novels, she won the Nobel Prize of 2013 for literature. People widely consider her premier fiction of the world. Munro thrice received governor general's award. She focuses on human relationships through the lens of daily life. People thus refer to this "the Canadian Chekhov."(Arabic: أليس مونرو)(Persian: آلیس مانرو)(Russian Cyrillic: Элис Манро)(Ukrainian Cyrillic: Еліс Манро)(Bulgarian Cyrillic: Алис Мънро)(Slovak: Alice Munroová)(Serbian: Alis Manro) Collections of short stories of noted Canadian writer Alice Munro of life in rural Ontario include Dance of the Happy Shades (1968) and Moons of Jupiter (1982); for these and vivid novels, she won the Nobel Prize of 2013 for literature. People widely consider her premier fiction of the world. Munro thrice received governor general's award. She focuses on human relationships through the lens of daily life. People thus refer to this "the Canadian Chekhov."(Arabic: أليس مونرو)(Persian: آلیس مانرو)(Russian Cyrillic: Элис Манро)(Ukrainian Cyrillic: Еліс Манро)(Bulgarian Cyrillic: Алис Мънро)(Slovak: Alice Munroová)(Serbian: Alis Manro) ...more