Alice Munro

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 Canadian short-story writer who became one of the most celebrated authors of the 20th century, known for her finely crafted stories about everyday life and human relationships. Her work matters because it demonstrated the literary power and artistic possibilities of the short-story form, earning her international recognition and influencing generations of writers.

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Born: 10 July 1931
Died: 2024-05-13
Works: 155

Top works

The Best American Short Stories 2008
The Best American Short Stories 2007
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Type: Person
Gender: Female
Origin: Canada
Active from: 1931-07-10
Active to: 2024-05-13

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Listeners: 135
Total plays: 4,189

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Alice Ann Munro (née Laidlaw; born 10 July 1931) is a Canadian short-story writer, winner of the 2009 Man Booker International Prize for her lifetime body of work, and three-time winner of Canada's Governor General's Award for fiction. Generally regarded to be one of the world's foremost writers of fiction, her stories focus on the human condition and relationships through the lens of daily life. While most of Munro’s fiction is set in Southwestern Ontario and the Canadian Pacific Northwest <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Alice+Munro">Read more on Last.fm</a>

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5 total works indexed

Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
· 2020 · cited 15,384x
Minimal information for studies of extracellular vesicles 2018 (MISEV2018): a position statement of the International Society for Extracellular Vesicles and update of the MISEV2014 guidelines
· 2018 · cited 9,388x
2018 ESC/ESH Guidelines for the management of arterial hypertension
· 2018 · cited 8,155x
Mutation in the α-Synuclein Gene Identified in Families with Parkinson's Disease
· 1997 · cited 7,076x
Finding the missing heritability of complex diseases
· 2009 · cited 6,948x

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Quotes

“People are curious. A few people are. They will be driven to find things out, even trivial things. They will put things together, knowing all along that they may be mistaken. You see them going around with notebooks, scraping the dirt off gravestones, reading microfilm, just in the hope of seeing this trickle in time, making a connection, rescuing one thing from the rubbish. And they may get it wrong, after all. I may have got it wrong.”
“You cannot let your parents anywhere near your real humiliations.”
“Always remember that when a man goes out of the room, he leaves everything in it behind... When a woman goes out she carries everything that happened in the room along with her.”
“In your life there are a few places, or maybe only the one place, where something happened, and then there are all the other places.”
“She was learning, quite late, what many people around her appeared to have known since childhood: that life can be perfectly satisfying without major achievements.”
““,” is a true story about . Reading her life and dramatizing it, I could find all these things . . . some have changed, and some haven’t that much. Oh, I love that story – I love her. I love her femininity, her weaknesses as well as her strengths. The way she falls desperately in love with and she just can’t give him up. But what does he hold against her? Her achievements”

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Image: Alice Munro 2006 (cropped).jpg
Number of children: 3

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end of work period: 2024-00-00
date of birth: 1931-07-10
Commons category: Alice Munro
birth name: Alice Ann Laidlaw
start of work period: 1950-00-00
name in native language: Alice Munro
date of death: 2024-05-13

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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.