Biography
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 stories focused on the human condition and relationships seen through the lens of daily life. While the locus of Munro’s fiction was Southwestern Ontario, her reputation as a short-story writer is international. Her "accessible, moving stories" explore human complexities in a seemingly effortless style. Munro's writing established her as "one of our greatest contemporary writers of fiction," or, as Cynthia Ozick put it, "our Chekhov." Description above from the Wikipedia article Alice Munro, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Awards & recognition
- Nobel Prize in Literature · 2013
- Trillium Book Award · 2013
- Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres · 2010
- International Booker Prize · 2009
- O. Henry Award · 2008
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- O. Henry Award · 2006
- Atwood Gibson Writers' Trust Fiction Prize · 2004
- Giller Prize · 2004
- Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature · 2002
- Rea Award — the Short Story · 2001
- Giller Prize · 1998
- National Book Critics Circle Award — Fiction · 1998
- Trillium Book Award · 1998
- PEN/Malamud Award · 1997
- WH Smith Literary Award · 1995
- Order of Ontario · 1994
- Lorne Pierce Medal · 1993
- Molson Prize · 1990
- Trillium Book Award · 1990
- Governor General's Award — English-language fiction · 1986
- Marian Engel Award · 1986
- Governor General's Award — English-language fiction · 1978
- Governor General's Award — English-language fiction · 1968
- Commonwealth Writers' Prize
- Booker Prize · 1980 · nominated
