Alice Munro

Bha Alice Ann Munro née Laidlaw (rugadh 10 an t-Iuchar 1931, chaochail 13 an Cèitean 2024) na sgrìobhadair Canadianach a sgrìobh ann am Beurla.

Choisinn i iomadh duais, nam measg an Duais Nobel ann an Litreachas ann an 2013.

Eachdraidh a Beatha

Tràth sa beatha

Rugadh Munro leis an ainm Alice Ann Laidlaw ann an Wingham, Ontario. Bha tuathanas le madaidhean agus mincean aig a h-athair, Robert Eric Laidlaw.Jeanne McCulloch, Mona Simpson "Alice Munro, The Art of Fiction No. 137", The Paris Review No. 131, Samhradh 1994 B' e tidsear sgoile a bh' anns a màthair, Anne Clarke Laidlaw (née Chamney).

Thòisich i a' sgrìobhadh nuair a bha i na deugaire. Ann an 1950, fhad's a bha i a' dèanamh Beurla aig Oilthigh Western Ontario, dh'fhoillsich i a ciad sgeulachd, "The Dimensions of a Shadow". Dh'fhàg i an oilthigh nuair a phòs i agus dh'imrich i a Columbia Bhreatannach far an do chuir i bùth leabhraichean air dòigh leis an duine aice. 

Bha i pòsta aig James Munro bho 1951 gu 1972 agus aig Gerald Fremlin bho 1976 gu àm a bhàis ann an 2013. Bha triùir chloinne aice. 

Sgrìobhaidhean

Tha Munro ainmeil airson a cuid sgeulachdan goirid. Thathar ag ràdh gun tug i buaidh mhòr air structar an sgeulachd goirid ann am Beurla leis mar a bhios an t-àm a' gluasad air ais is air adhart anns na sgeulachdan.Alice Munro Wins Nobel Prize in Literature, by Julie Bosmans, The New York Times, 10 Dàmh. 2013 Mar as tric, tha a cuid ficsean stèidhichte ann an sgìre far an deach a h-àraich, sgrìre Huron air taobh an iar-dheas Ontario. 

Thuirt i gun tug na sgrìobhadairean seo buaidh oirre: William Maxwell, Eudora Welty, John Updike, Carson McCullers, Katherine Anne Porter, Flannery O'Connor, James Agee, Cheever, Joyce Carol Oates, Peter Taylor, William Trevor, Edna O'Brien, Richard Ford.A Conversation with Alice Munro. Bookbrowse. A' tarraing air 2 Ògmh. 2009.

Duaisean
Ann an 2009, bhuannaich i am Man Booker International Prize airson a cuid saothair gu lèir.

 Bhuannaich i trì tursan Duais an Governor General an Canada airson ficsean (1968, 1978, 1986). 
 1996 Duais Marian Engel bhon Urras Sgrìobhadairean Chanada Writers' Trust of Canada
 1998 Duais Giller (& 2004)
 2004 Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize airson an leabhar Runaway.
 2009 Duais Eadar-nàiseanta Man Booker 
 2013 Duais Nobel ann an Litreachas

Clàr-leabhraichean

Leabhraichean de sgeulachdan goirid 
 1968 Dance of the Happy Shades – (bhuannaich Duais an Governor General)
 1971 Lives of Girls and Women 
 1974 Something I've Been Meaning to Tell You
 1978 Who Do You Think You Are? – (bhuannaich Duais an Governor General; cuideachd fon ainm The Beggar Maid)
 1982 The Moons of Jupiter – (ainmeachadh airson Duais an Governor General)
 1986 The Progress of Love – (bhuannaich Duais an Governor General)
 1990 Friend of My Youth – (bhuannaich Duais Leabhar Trillium)
 1994 Open Secrets – (ainmeachadh airson Duais an Governor General)
 1998 The Love of a Good Woman – (Duais Giller)
 2001 Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage – (ath-chlò-bhualadh mar Away From Her)
 2004 Runaway – (Duais Giller agus Duais Urrais Sgrìobhadairean Rogers airson ficsean)
 2006 The View from Castle Rock 
 2009 Too Much Happiness 
 2012 Dear Life

Cruinneachaidh de sgeulachdan goirid
 1996 Selected Stories 
 2003 No Love Lost 
 2004 Vintage Munro 
 2006 Alice Munro's Best: A Selection of Stories - le roimh-ràdh le Margaret Atwood
 2011 New Selected Stories
 2014 Lying Under the Apple Tree. New Selected Stories

Iomraidhean

Roinn-seòrsa:Sgrìobhadairean Canèideanach
Roinn-seòrsa:Daoine à Canada