Winner of both the Man Booker International Prize in 2009 and the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2013 as well as various other literary awards, Alice Munro was a Canadian author best known for her masterful short fiction.
Munro’s debut short story collection Dance of the Happy Shades was published in 1968, followed by a further thirteen bestselling books of short fiction, most recently Dear Life (2012). During her six decade-spanning career, she won numerous literary awards, including three of Canada's Governor General's Literary Awards and two Giller Prizes, the Man Booker International Prize of 2009 for her lifetime body of work. In 2013, she was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, and her short fiction has been compared to that of Chekov in its emotional scope, intimacy and compassion. Her stories also appeared in the New Yorker, Atlantic Monthly and the Paris Review among others, and her work has been translated into over thirteen languages. Munro passed away on 13 May 2024 at the age of 92 in Port Hope, Ontario, Canada.
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