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Alice Munro

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Also known as Alice Ann Munro, Alice Ann Laidlaw Munro, Alice Laidlaw, Alice Anne Munro

Canadian writer (1931–2024)

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Alice Munro was a writer whose career spanned from 1950 to 2024. She was born on July 10, 1931, and died on May 13, 2024. Munro had four children.

She received the Nobel Prize in Literature once. Her work is recognized in the Nobel Literature collection, the American Academy Arts Sciences collection, and the International Booker Prize collection.

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Wingham, Ontario, Canada

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Alice Ann Munro (née Laidlaw; born 10 July 1931) was a Canadian short-story writer, winner of the 2009 Man Booker International Prize for her lifetime body of work, three-time winner of Canada's Governor General's Award for fiction, and a perennial contender for the Nobel Prize. Generally regarded to be one of the world's foremost writers of fiction, her…

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Nobel Prize

  • The Nobel Prize in Literature2013

    “master of the contemporary short story”

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Instance of
human
Given name
Ann
Gender
female
Citizenship
Canada
Place of birth
Wingham
Place of death
Port Hope
Occupation
journalist
Educated at
University of Western Ontario
Languages spoken
English language
Native language
English language
Notable work
Something I've Been Meaning to Tell You
Field of work
short story
Image
Alice Munro 2006 (cropped).jpg
Number of children
3
Work location
Ontario
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end of work period
2024-00-00
date of birth
1931-07-10
influenced by
John Updike
Commons category
Alice Munro
member of
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
birth name
Alice Ann Laidlaw
writing language
English language
start of work period
1950-00-00
name in native language
Alice Munro
nominated for
Booker Prize
date of death
2024-05-13
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Encyclopedic overview

Alice Ann Munro OOnt (/mənˈroʊ/ mən-ROH; née Laidlaw; 10 July 1931 – 13 May 2024) was a Canadian short story writer who was awarded 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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