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Alice Ann Munro OOnt (/ m ə n ˈ r oʊ / mən-ROH; née Laidlaw / ˈ l eɪ d l ɔː / LAYD-law; 10 July 1931 – 13 May 2024) was a Canadian short story writer who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2013.
Works by Munro that appeared in anthologies may be more difficult to locate than those that were published in journals or in Munro's original collections but they are likely to be numerous. Please add. "Dulse" in: The Penguin Book of Modern Canadian Short Stories, edited by Wayne Grady, Markham, Ont.: Penguin Books Canada, 1982, 463–81. [7]
Open Secrets (ISBN 0-099-45971-X) is a book of short stories by Alice Munro published by McClelland and Stewart in 1994. It was nominated for the 1994 Governor General's Award for English Fiction. [1] The Edmonton Journal called it "the best Canadian book of 1994."
In 2024, the New York Times ranked the book #23 of the best 100 books of the 21st century. [9] "The Bear Came Over the Mountain" features as the closing piece in the 2008 short story collection, My Mistress's Sparrow Is Dead: Great Love Stories, from Chekhov to Munro, edited by novelist Jeffrey Eugenides. Two of the stories were adapted into films.
Who Do You Think You Are? is a book of short stories by Alice Munro, recipient of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Literature, published by Macmillan of Canada in 1978.It won Munro her second Governor General's Award for Fiction in English, [1] and short-listed for the Booker Prize for Fiction in 1980 under its international title, The Beggar Maid (subtitled Stories of Flo and Rose).
The Love of a Good Woman is a collection of short stories by Canadian writer Alice Munro, published by McClelland and Stewart in 1998.. The eight stories of this collection (one of which was originally published in Saturday Night; five others were originally published in The New Yorker) deal with Munro's typical themes: secrets, love, betrayal, and the stuff of ordinary lives.