Alice Munro | |
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Born | Alice Ann Laidlaw 10 July 1931 Wingham, Ontario, Canada |
Died | 13 May 2024 Port Hope, Ontario, Canada | (aged 92)
Occupation | Short story writer |
Language | English |
Education | University of Western Ontario |
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Spouse | James Munro
(m. 1951; div. 1972)Gerald Fremlin
(m. 1976; died 2013) |
Children | 4 |
Alice Ann Munro (/mənˈroʊ/; née Laidlaw /ˈleɪdlɔː/; 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. Her stories explore human complexities in a simple but meticulous prose style. Munro received the Man Booker International Prize in 2009 for her life's work. She was also a three-time winner of Canada's Governor General's Award for Fiction, and received the Writers' Trust of Canada's 1996 Marian Engel Award and the 2004 Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize for Runaway. She stopped writing around 2013 and died at her home in 2024.
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