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Alice Munro | |
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.jpg) Munro in 2006 | |
| Born | Alice Ann Laidlaw 10 July 1931 Wingham, Ontario, Canada |
| Died | 13 May 2024 (aged 92) Port Hope, Ontario, Canada |
| 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 fiction cycles.
Munro's fiction is most often set in her native Huron County in southwestern Ontario. Her stories explore human complexities in a simple prose style.
Munro received the Man Booker International Prize in 2009 for her body of 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 mostly stopped writing around 2013 and died at her home in 2024.
In July 2024, Munro's daughter Andrea Robin Skinner published an essay in The Toronto Star in which she wrote that Munro's second husband, Gerald Fremlin, sexually abused her in 1976 when she was nine years old, and that Munro stayed with him after Skinner told her about the abuse in 1992.[1][2] Literary figures are reassessing her legacy.[3]
- ^ Cite error: The named reference
:1was invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ Del Rosario, Alexandra (8 July 2024). "Alice Munro's daughter reveals sexual abuse by stepfather, says mother stayed silent". The Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 9 July 2024.
- ^ / Nicole Thompson, "Literary World Grapples with Revelation that Alice Munro Stayed with her Daughter's Abuser" Victoria Times-Colonist accessed 9 July 2024
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