Her output includes: Dance of the Happy Shades (1968), Lives of Girls and Women (1971), Something I've Been Meaning to Tell You (1974), Who Do You Think You Are? (1978), The Moons of Jupiter (1982), The Progress of Love (1986), Friend of My Youth (1990), Open Secrets (1994), The Love of a Good Woman (1998), Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage (2001), Runaway (2004), The View from Castle Rock (2006), Too Much Happiness (2009) and Dear Life (2012).
Henry Award in the US for continuing achievement in short fiction. The recognition Munro's fiction has earned also includes three Governor-General's awards (1968, 1978, 1986), two Giller Prizes (1998, 2004), and the Man Booker International Prize for lifetime achievement in 2009, as well as the Canada-Australia Literary Prize, the Commonwealth Writers' Prize (Canada and the Caribbean), and the O. In 2013 she became the first Canadian to win the Nobel Prize for literature. Alice Munro is widely regarded as one of the most important short-story writers, not just in Canada but in the English-speaking world as a whole. To read these stories-about a traveling salesman and his children on an impromptu journey an abandoned woman choosing between seduction and solitude-is to succumb to the spell of a writer who enchants her readers utterly even as she restores them to their truest selves.Characteristic of Munro's style is the search for some revelatory gesture by which an event is illuminated and given personal significance (photo by Jerry Baker).Īlice Munro, nee Alice Laidlaw, short-story writer (born in Wingham, Ontario 10 July 1931). In her Selected Stories, Alice Munro makes lives that seem small unfold until they are revealed to be as spacious as prairies and locates the moments of love and betrayal, desire and forgiveness, that change those lives forever. Spanning almost thirty years and settings that range from big cities to small towns and farmsteads of rural Canada, this magnificent collection brings together twenty-eight stories by a writer of unparalleled wit, generosity, and emotional power.
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