Home    New Authors    New Books    Coming Soon    Most Popular    Top Authors
Alice Munro's picture

Alice Munro

(Alice Ann Munro)
Canada   (1931 - )
Search Authors

Search Books

 
About Alice Munro
Alice Ann Munro is a Canadian short-story writer and three-time winner of Canada's Governor General's Award for fiction. Widely considered one of the finest living English-language short story writers, her stories focus on human relationships looked at through the lens of daily life. While most of Munro's fiction is set in 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 has established her as "one of our greatest contemporary writers of fiction," or, as Cynthia Ozick put it, "our Chekhov."
 
New and Forthcoming Hardbacks
Dear Life
Dear Life

Awards
The Man Booker Prize Best Novel nominee (1980) : The Beggar Maid
James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction Best Collection nominee (2006) : The View from Castle Rock


Alice Munro recommends
The Lost Salt Gift of Blood
The Lost Salt Gift of Blood (1976)
Alistair MacLeod
"It is hard to think of anyone who casts a spell the way Alistair MacLeod can."
Duet for Three
Duet for Three (1986)
Joan Barfoot
"In Duet for Three, Joan Barfoot's charting of family life is unsparing, painful, witty, and surprising. The cumulative effect is remarkably powerful."
God's Snake
God's Snake (1987)
Irini Spanidou
"Passionate . . . a wonderful book."
Graven Images
Graven Images (1993)
Audrey Thomas
"An exuberant, horrific excavation of a family's life and history... wild, witty."
Cereus Blooms at Night
Cereus Blooms at Night (1997)
Shani Mootoo
"A story of magical power."
Amy and Isabelle
Amy and Isabelle (1998)
Elizabeth Strout
"A novel of shining integrity and humour."
The Deep and Other Stories
The Deep and Other Stories (2003)
Mary Swan
"A writer who arrives with grace and authority."
What the Stones Remember
What the Stones Remember (2005)
Patrick Lane
"To read this book is to enter a state of enchantment."
Suddenly
Suddenly (2009)
Bonnie Burnard
"A writer who can tell you hard truths, hopefully."
Vanishing and Other Stories
Vanishing and Other Stories (2009)
Deborah Willis
"The emotional range and depth of these stories, the clarity and deftness, is astonishing."
Saints and Sinners
Saints and Sinners (2011)
Edna O'Brien
"Edna O'Brien writes the most beautiful, aching stories of any writer, anywhere."



Visitors to this page also looked at these authors
Alexander McCall Smith
James Patterson
Dennis Lehane
Daniel Silva
Donna Leon
Ian Rankin
Andy McNab
Lee Child
Michael Connelly
James Lee Burke
Patricia Cornwell
Hilary Mantel
Stuart MacBride
Alan Bennett
Alex Berenson



Search for    

© 2012 FantasticFiction     Bibliography by D C Wands and P G Wands     Last Updated:
Questions? Comments? Corrections? Please email webmaster@fantasticfiction.co.uk