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Alice Munro is the author of thirteen collections of stories—including Dear Life, Runaway, and Too Much Happiness—as well as a novel, Lives of Girls and Women. Among the many awards and prizes she received are three Governor General’s Literary Awards and two Giller Prizes in Canada; the Rea Award; the Lannan Literary Award; the National Book Critics Circle Award; and the International Booker Prize. Her stories have appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The Paris Review, and other publications, and her collections have been translated into thirteen languages. She was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2013. Alice Munro died in 2024.
“Munro is in a class of her own. . . . No other writer working
today is able to invest the humble story with more power, grace or
breadth. . . . Munro has been compared to Chekhov. . . . She has
the haunting lyricism and the indulgent wisdom to qualify.”—Los
Angeles Times Book Review
“How does one know when one is in the grip of art, a major talent?
One feels it in the assurance, the sensibility behind every line of
a work; one knows its presence as much from what is withheld as
from what is given or explained. It is art that speaks from the
pages of Alice Munro’s stories.”—Wall Street Journal
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