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Alice Munro
Turning small-town lives into intricate short stories with the scope of novels.
Lives of Girls and Women · Runaway
- Born
- 10 July 1931
- Birthplace
- Wingham, Canada
- Died
- 13 May 2024
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Alice Munro
Alice Munro was a Canadian writer whose stories explored memory, family and the consequences of everyday choices.
Early life
Ontario
Grew up in rural southwestern Ontario.
University
Studied at the University of Western Ontario and published an early story as a student.
Career
- 1963
Bookselling
Co-founded Munro’s Books in Victoria.
- 1968
First collection
Published Dance of the Happy Shades.
- 2013
Nobel Prize
Received recognition for her short fiction.
Selected work
Lives of Girls and Women
Linked stories around a girl’s coming of age.
Runaway
Explored escape, attachment and uncertainty.
Dear Life
Returned to family histories and remembered lives.
Beyond work
Home ground
Ontario’s towns and countryside remained central to her fiction.
Retirement
Stopped writing near the end of her career and died in 2024.
Sources & photo credit
Life, career and references ↗Nobel Prize biography and award ↗Photo: MacDowell. CC BY-SA 3.0 · Original image. Cropped and displayed in monochrome.
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