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Alice Munro

(Alice Ann Munro)
Canada   (1931 - )
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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."
 
Awards
The 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."
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."



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