Alice Munro

Alice Ann Munro (10 July 1931 – 13 May 2024) was a Canadian writer of short stories. Munro received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2013. She was the first Canadian to win the award.

Career
Munro began writing as a teenager, publishing her first story, "The Dimensions of a Shadow", in 1950 while studying English and journalism at the University of Western Ontario on a two-year scholarship. She left college in 1951 to marry her friend James Munro. 

In her stories Munro has changed the way people write short stories. Her stories usually start in a place where people do not expect. After that, the stories go back and forward in time.Alice Munro Wins Nobel Prize in Literature, by Julie Bosmans, The New York Times, 10 October 2013

Her first collection of short stories, Dance of the Happy Shades, was published by Ryerson Press in 1968. It won the 1968 Governor General's Award for Fiction.

Munro's most recent collection of short stories, Dear Life, was published in 2012 by McClelland and Stewart.

Personal life
Munro was born Alice Ann Laidlaw in Wingham, Ontario. Her father, Robert Eric Laidlaw, was a fox and mink farmer, and later turned to turkey farming. Her mother, Anne Clarke Laidlaw (née Chamney), was a schoolteacher.

Munro died at her home in Port Hope, Ontario on 13 May 2024 from problems caused by dementia at the age of 92.

References

Other websites

List of Works

"Alice Munro, The Art of Fiction No. 137", The Paris Review No. 131, Summer 1994
"Alice Munro’s Passive Voice" by Rachel Aviv. The New Yorker, December 23, 2024

Alice Munro at the British Council Writers Directory
Stories by Alice Munro accessible online
Alice Munro's papers (fonds) held at the University of Calgary
 How To Tell If You Are in an Alice Munro Story , 8 December 2014

Category:1931 births
Category:2024 deaths
Category:Writers from Ontario
Category:O. Henry Award winners
Category:Deaths from dementia
Category:Nobel Prize in Literature winners