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Alice Munro

March 06, 2023

Alice Ann Munro (/mənˈroʊ/; née Laidlaw /ˈleɪdlɔː/; born 10 July 1931) is a Canadian short story writer who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2013. Munro's work has been described as revolutionizing the architecture of short stories, especially in its tendency to move forward and backward in time.[2] Her stories have been said to "embed more than announce, reveal more than parade."[3]

Alice Munro
BornAlice Ann Laidlaw
(1931-07-10) 10 July 1931 (age 91)
Wingham, Ontario, Canada
OccupationShort-story writer
LanguageEnglish
Alma materThe University of Western Ontario[1]
GenreShort stories, Realism, Southern Ontario Gothic
Notable awardsGovernor General's Award (1968, 1978, 1986)
Giller Prize (1998, 2004)
Man Booker International Prize (2009)
Nobel Prize in Literature (2013)
Spouse
James Munro
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(m. 1951; div. 1972)​
Gerald Fremlin
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(m. 1976; died 2013)​
Children4

Munro's fiction is most often set in her native Huron County in southwestern Ontario.[4] Her stories explore human complexities in an uncomplicated prose style.[5] Munro's writing has established her as "one of our greatest contemporary writers of fiction", or, as Cynthia Ozick put it, "our Chekhov."[6] Munro has received many literary accolades, including the 2013 Nobel Prize in Literature for her work as "master of the contemporary short story",[7] and the 2009 Man Booker International Prize for her lifetime body of work. She is also a three-time winner of Canada's Governor General's Award for fiction, and received the Writers' Trust of Canada's 1996 Marian Engel Award and the 2004 Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize for Runaway.[7][8][9][10]

Early life and education

Munro was born Alice Ann Laidlaw in Wingham, Ontario. Her father, Robert Eric Laidlaw, was a fox and mink farmer,[11] and later turned to turkey farming.[12] Her mother, Anne Clarke Laidlaw (née Chamney), was a schoolteacher. She is of Irish and Scottish descent; her father is a descendant of James Hogg, the Ettrick Shepherd.[13]

Munro began writing as a teenager, publishing her first story, "The Dimensions of a Shadow", in 1950 while studying English and journalism at the University of Western Ontario on a two-year scholarship.[14][15] During this period she worked as a waitress, a tobacco picker, and a library clerk. In 1951, she left the university, where she had been majoring in English since 1949, to marry fellow student James Munro. They moved to Dundarave, West Vancouver, for James's job in a department store. In 1963, the couple moved to Victoria, where they opened Munro's Books, which still operates.

Career

Munro's highly acclaimed first collection of stories, Dance of the Happy Shades (1968), won the Governor General's Award, then Canada's highest literary prize.[16] That success was followed by Lives of Girls and Women (1971), a collection of interlinked stories. In 1978, Munro's collection of interlinked stories Who Do You Think You Are? was published (titled The Beggar Maid: Stories of Flo and Rose in the United States). This book earned Munro a second Governor General's Literary Award.[17] From 1979 to 1982, she toured Australia, China and Scandinavia for public appearances and readings. In 1980 Munro held the position of writer in residence at both the University of British Columbia and the University of Queensland.

From the 1980s to 2012, Munro published a short-story collection at least once every four years. First versions of Munro's stories have appeared in journals such as The Atlantic Monthly, Grand Street, Harper's Magazine, Mademoiselle, The New Yorker, Narrative Magazine, and The Paris Review. Her collections have been translated into 13 languages.[1] On 10 October 2013, Munro was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, cited as a "master of the contemporary short story".[7][8][18] She is the first Canadian and the 13th woman to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature.[19]

Munro is noted for her longtime association with editor and publisher Douglas Gibson.[20] When Gibson left Macmillan of Canada in 1986 to launch the Douglas Gibson Books imprint at McClelland and Stewart, Munro returned the advance Macmillan had already paid her for The Progress of Love so that she could follow Gibson to the new company.[21] Munro and Gibson have retained their professional association ever since; when Gibson published his memoirs in 2011, Munro wrote the introduction, and to this day Gibson often makes public appearances on Munro's behalf when her health prevents her from appearing personally.[22]

Almost 20 of Munro's works have been made available for free on the web, in most cases only the first versions.[23] From the period before 2003, 16 stories have been included in Munro's own compilations more than twice, with two of her works scoring four republications: "Carried Away" and "Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage".[24]

Film adaptations of Munro's short stories have included Martha, Ruth and Edie (1988), Edge of Madness (2002), Away from Her (2006), Hateship, Loveship (2013) and Julieta (2016).

Writing

Many of Munro's stories are set in Huron County, Ontario. Her strong regional focus is one of her fiction's features. Asked after she won the Nobel Prize, "What can be so interesting in describing small town Canadian life?" Munro replied, "You just have to be there!"[25] Another feature is an omniscient narrator who serves to make sense of the world. Many compare Munro's small-town settings to writers from the rural American South. As in the works of William Faulkner and Flannery O'Connor, Munro's characters often confront deep-rooted customs and traditions, but her characters' reactions are generally less intense than their Southern counterparts'. Her male characters tend to capture the essence of the everyman, while her female characters are more complex. Much of Munro's work exemplifies the Southern Ontario Gothic literary genre.[26]

Munro's work is often compared with the great short-story writers. In her stories, as in Chekhov's, plot is secondary and "little happens". As in Chekhov, Garan Holcombe says, "All is based on the epiphanic moment, the sudden enlightenment, the concise, subtle, revelatory detail." Munro's work deals with "love and work, and the failings of both. She shares Chekhov's obsession with time and our much-lamented inability to delay or prevent its relentless movement forward."[27]

A frequent theme of her work, particularly in her early stories, has been the dilemmas of a girl coming of age and coming to terms with her family and her small hometown. In recent work such as Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage (2001) and Runaway (2004) she has shifted her focus to the travails of middle age, women alone, and the elderly. Her characters often experience a revelation that sheds light on, and gives meaning to, an event.

Munro's prose reveals the ambiguities of life: "ironic and serious at the same time," "mottoes of godliness and honor and flaming bigotry," "special, useless knowledge," "tones of shrill and happy outrage," "the bad taste, the heartlessness, the joy of it." Her style juxtaposes the fantastic and the ordinary, with each undercutting the other in ways that simply and effortlessly evoke life.[28] Robert Thacker wrote:

Munro's writing creates ... an empathetic union among readers, critics most apparent among them. We are drawn to her writing by its verisimilitude – not of mimesis, so-called and ... 'realism' – but rather the feeling of being itself ... of just being a human being."[29]

Many critics have written that Munro's stories often have the emotional and literary depth of novels. Some have asked whether Munro actually writes short stories or novels. Alex Keegan, writing in Eclectica, gave a simple answer: "Who cares? In most Munro stories there is as much as in many novels."[30]

Research on Munro's work has been undertaken since the early 1970s, with the first PhD thesis published in 1972.[31] The first book-length volume collecting the papers presented at the University of Waterloo first conference on her work was published in 1984, The Art of Alice Munro: Saying the Unsayable.[32] In 2003/2004, the journal Open Letter. Canadian quarterly review of writing and sources published 14 contributions on Munro's work. In autumn 2010, the Journal of the Short Story in English (JSSE)/Les cahiers de la nouvelle dedicated a special issue to Munro, and in May 2012 an issue of the journal Narrative focussed on a single story by Munro, "Passion" (2004), with an introduction, summary of the story, and five analytical essays.[33]

Creating new versions

Munro publishes variant versions of her stories, sometimes within a short span of time. Her stories "Save the Reaper" and "Passion" came out in two different versions in the same year, in 1998 and 2004 respectively. Two other stories were republished in a variant versions about 30 years apart, "Home" (1974/2006/2014) and "Wood" (1980/2009).[34]

In 2006 Ann Close and Lisa Dickler Awano reported that Munro had not wanted to reread the galleys of Runaway (2004): "No, because I'll rewrite the stories." In their symposium contribution An Appreciation of Alice Munro they say that of her story "Powers", for example, Munro did eight versions in all.[35]

 
Section variants of "Wood".

Awano writes that "Wood" is a good example of how Munro, "a tireless self-editor",[36] rewrites and revises a story, in this case returning to it for a second publication nearly 30 years later, revising characterizations, themes and perspectives, as well as rhythmic syllables, a conjunction or a punctuation mark. The characters change, too. Inferring from the perspective they take on things, they are middle-age in 1980, and in 2009 they are older. Awano perceives a heightened lyricism brought about not least by the poetic precision of the revision Munro undertakes.[36] The 2009 version comprises eight sections to the 1980 version's three, and has a new ending. Awano writes that Munro literally "refinishes" the first take on the story with an ambiguity characteristic of Munro's endings, and that Munro reimagines her stories throughout her work a variety of ways.[36]

Several stories were republished with considerable variation as to which content goes into which section. This can be seen, for example, in "Home", "The Progress of Love", "What Do You Want to Know For?", "The Children Stay", "Save the Reaper", "The Bear Came Over the Mountain", "Passion", "The View From Castle Rock", "Wenlock Edge", and "Deep-Holes".

Personal life

She married James Munro in 1951. Their daughters Sheila, Catherine, and Jenny were born in 1953, 1955, and 1957, respectively; Catherine died the day of her birth due to the lack of functioning kidneys.[37]

In 1963, the Munros moved to Victoria, where they opened Munro's Books, a popular bookstore still in business. In 1966, their daughter Andrea was born. Alice and James Munro divorced in 1972.

Munro returned to Ontario to become writer in residence at the University of Western Ontario, and in 1976 received an honorary LLD from the institution. In 1976, she married Gerald Fremlin, a cartographer and geographer she met in her university days.[14] The couple moved to a farm outside Clinton, Ontario, and later to a house in Clinton, where Fremlin died on 17 April 2013, aged 88.[38] Munro and Fremlin also owned a home in Comox, British Columbia.[1]

At a Toronto appearance in October 2009, Munro indicated that she had received treatment for cancer and for a heart condition requiring coronary-artery bypass surgery.[39]

In 2002, Sheila Munro published a childhood memoir, Lives of Mothers and Daughters: Growing Up with Alice Munro.[40]

Works

Main article: List of short stories by Alice Munro

Original short-story collections

Short-story compilations

  • Selected Stories (later retitled Selected Stories 1968–1994 and A Wilderness Station: Selected Stories, 1968–1994) – 1996
  • No Love Lost – 2003
  • Vintage Munro – 2004
  • Alice Munro's Best: A Selection of Stories – Toronto 2006 / Carried Away: A Selection of Stories – New York 2006; both 17 stories (spanning 1977–2004) with an introduction by Margaret Atwood
  • My Best Stories – 2009
  • New Selected Stories – 2011
  • Lying Under the Apple Tree. New Selected Stories, 434 pages, 15 stories,[42] c Alice Munro 2011, Vintage, London 2014, paperback
  • Family Furnishings: Selected Stories 1995–2014 – 2014

Selected awards and honours

Awards

Honours

References

  1. ^ a b c Preface. Dance of the Happy Shades. Alice Munro. First Vintage contemporaries Edition, August 1998. ISBN 0-679-78151-X Vintage Books, A Division of Random House, Inc. New York City.
  2. ^ Bosman, Julie (10 October 2013). "Alice Munro Wins Nobel Prize in Literature". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 5 March 2023.
  3. ^ W. H. New. "Literature in English". The Canadian Encyclopedia. Retrieved 18 August 2019.
  4. ^ Marchand, P. (29 August 2009). "Open Book: Philip Marchand on Too Much Happiness, by Alice Munro". The National Post. Retrieved 5 September 2009.[permanent dead link]
  5. ^ Meyer, M. . Meyer Literature. Archived from the original on 12 December 2007. Retrieved 21 November 2007.
  6. ^ Merkin, Daphne (24 October 2004). "Northern Exposures". The New York Times Magazine. Retrieved 25 February 2008.
  7. ^ a b c d "The Nobel Prize in Literature 2013 – Press Release" (PDF). 10 October 2013. Retrieved 10 October 2013.
  8. ^ a b Bosman, Julie (10 October 2013). "Alice Munro Wins Nobel Prize in Literature". The New York Times. Retrieved 10 October 2013.
  9. ^ "Alice Munro wins Man Booker International prize". The Guardian. 27 May 2009.
  10. ^ a b "Past Writers' Trust Engel/Findley Award Winners". Retrieved 7 April 2014.
  11. ^ "The Art of Fiction No. 137". Vol. Summer 1994, no. 131. 1994. ISSN 0031-2037. Retrieved 5 March 2023.
  12. ^ Gaunce, Julia, Suzette Mayr, Don LePan, Marjorie Mather, and Bryanne Miller, eds. "Alice Munro." The Broadview Anthology of Short Fiction. 2nd ed. Buffalo, NY: Broadview Press, 2012.
  13. ^ Taylor, Catherine (10 October 2013). "For Alice Munro, small is beautiful". Archived from the original on 12 January 2022 – via www.telegraph.co.uk.
  14. ^ a b Jason Winders (10 October 2013). "Alice Munro, LLD'76, wins 2013 Nobel Prize in Literature". Western News. The University of Western Ontario.
  15. ^ "Canada's Alice Munro, 'master' of short stories, wins Nobel Prize in literature". CNN. 10 October 2013. Retrieved 11 October 2013.
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  19. ^ Saul Bellow, the 1976 laureate, was born in Canada, but he moved to the United States at age nine and became a US citizen at twenty-six.
  20. ^ Panofsky, Ruth (2012). The Literary Legacy of the Macmillan Company of Canada: Making Books and Mapping Culture. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. ISBN 978-0-8020-9877-1.
  21. ^ "Munro follows publisher Gibson from Macmillan". Toronto Star, 30 April 1986.
  22. ^ Ahearn, Victoria (11 October 2013). "Alice Munro unlikely to come out of retirement following Nobel win". CTVNews. Retrieved 5 March 2023.
  23. ^ Which of the stories have free Web versions.
  24. ^ For further details, see List of short stories by Alice Munro.
  25. ^ Hall, Linda (26 October 2017). "What's the best way to find fans of Alice Munro? Start quoting her work". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved 5 March 2023.
  26. ^ Susanne Becker, Gothic Forms of Feminine Fictions. Manchester University Press, 1999.
  27. ^ Holcombe, Garan (2005). . Contemporary Writers. London: British Arts Council. Archived from the original on 30 September 2007. Retrieved 20 June 2007.
  28. ^ Hoy, Helen (1980). "Dull, Simple, Amazing and Unfathomable: Paradox and Double Vision In Alice Munro's Fiction". Studies in Canadian Literature. University of New Brunswick. 5 (1). Retrieved 20 June 2007.
  29. ^ Thacker, Robert (1998) Review of Some other reality: Alice Munro's Something I've been Meaning to Tell You, by Louis K. MacKendrick. Journal of Canadian Studies, Summer 1998.
  30. ^ Keegan, Alex (August–September 1998). "Munro: The Short Answer". Eclectica. 2 (5). from the original on 25 June 2007. Retrieved 20 June 2007.
  31. ^ Struthers, J. R. (Tim) (1 January 1981). "Some Highly Subversive Activities: A Brief Polemic and a Checklist of Works on Alice Munro". Studies in Canadian Literature. ISSN 1718-7850.
  32. ^ Ventura, Héliane (1 December 2010). "Introduction". Journal of the Short Story in English. Les Cahiers de la nouvelle (55).
  33. ^ "55 | Autumn 2010 Special issue: The Short Stories of Alice Munro" (in French). {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  34. ^ For details please see List of short stories by Alice Munro
  35. ^ "An Appreciation of Alice Munro | VQR Online". www.vqronline.org. Retrieved 5 March 2023.
  36. ^ a b c "Kindling The Creative Fire: Alice Munro's Two Versions of "Wood"". New Haven Review. Retrieved 5 March 2023.
  37. ^ Thacker, Robert (2014). "Alice Munro – Biographical". Nobelprize.org. Retrieved 5 August 2018.
  38. ^ "Gerald Fremlin (obituary)". Clinton News-Record. April 2013. Retrieved 1 July 2013.
  39. ^ The Canadian Press (22 October 2009). "Alice Munro reveals cancer fight". CBC News. Retrieved 11 March 2010.
  40. ^ Harrison, Kathryn (16 June 2002). "Go Ask Alice". The New York Times. Retrieved 15 July 2016.
  41. ^ a b Besner, Neil K., "Introducing Alice Munro's Lives of Girls and Women: A Reader's Guide" (Toronto: ECW Press), 1990
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  43. ^ . Archived from the original on 1 September 2018. Retrieved 7 April 2014.
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  49. ^ "Alice Munro". 10 July 2015. Retrieved 27 July 2015.

Further reading

  • Atwood, Margaret et al. "Appreciations of Alice Munro." Virginia Quarterly Review 82.3 (Summer 2006): 91–107. Interviews with various authors (Margaret Atwood, Russell Banks, Michael Cunningham, Charles McGrath, Daniel Menaker and others) presented in first-person essay format
  • Awano, Lisa Dickler. "Kindling The Creative Fire: Alice Munro's Two Versions of 'Wood.'" New Haven Review (30 May 2012). Examining overall themes in Alice Munro's fiction through a study of her two versions of "Wood."
  • Awano, Lisa Dickler. Virginia Quarterly Review (22 October 2010). Long-form book review of Too Much Happiness in the context of Alice Munro's canon.
  • Besner, Neil Kalman. Introducing Alice Munro's Lives of Girls and Women: a reader's guide. (Toronto: ECW Press, 1990)
  • Blodgett, E. D. Alice Munro. (Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1988)
  • Buchholtz, Miroslawa (ed.). Alice Munro. Understanding, Adapting, Teaching (Springer International Publishing, 2016)
  • Carrington, Ildikó de Papp. Controlling the Uncontrollable: the fiction of Alice Munro. (DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 1989)
  • Carscallen, James. The Other Country: patterns in the writing of Alice Munro. (Toronto: ECW Press, 1993)
  • Cox, Alisa. Alice Munro. (Tavistock: Northcote House, 2004)
  • Dahlie, Hallvard. Alice Munro and Her Works. (Toronto: ECW Press, 1984)
  • Davey, Frank. 'Class, Family Furnishings, and Munro's Early Stories.' In Ventura and Conde. 79–88.
  • de Papp Carrington, Ildiko."What's in a Title?: Alice Munro's 'Carried Away.'" Studies in Short Fiction. 20.4 (Fall 1993): 555.
  • Dolnick, Ben. "A Beginner's Guide to Alice Munro" The Millions (5 July 2012)
  • Elliott, Gayle. "A Different Track: Feminist meta-narrative in Alice Munro's 'Friend of My Youth.'" Journal of Modern Literature. 20.1 (Summer 1996): 75.
  • Fowler, Rowena. "The Art of Alice Munro: The Beggar Maid and Lives of Girls and Women." Critique. 25.4 (Summer 1984): 189.
  • Garson, Marjorie. "Alice Munro and Charlotte Bronte." University of Toronto Quarterly 69.4 (Fall 2000): 783.
  • Genoways, Ted. "Ordinary Outsiders." Virginia Quarterly Review 82.3 (Summer 2006): 80–81.
  • Gibson, Douglas. Stories About Storytellers: Publishing Alice Munro, Robertson Davies, Alistair MacLeod, Pierre Trudeau, and Others. (ECW Press, 2011.)
  • Gittings, Christopher E.. "Constructing a Scots-Canadian Ground: Family history and cultural translation in Alice Munro." Studies in Short Fiction 34.1 (Winter 1997): 27
  • Hebel, Ajay. The Tumble of Reason: Alice Munro's discourse of absence. (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1994)
  • Hiscock, Andrew. "Longing for a Human Climate: Alice Munro's 'Friend of My Youth' and the culture of loss." Journal of Commonwealth Literature 32.2 (1997): 18.
  • Hooper, Brad The Fiction of Alice Munro: An Appreciation (Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 2008), ISBN 978-0-275-99121-0
  • Houston, Pam. "A Hopeful Sign: The making of metonymic meaning in Munro's 'Meneseteung.'" Kenyon Review 14.4 (Fall 1992): 79.
  • Howells, Coral Ann. Alice Munro. (New York: Manchester University Press, 1998), ISBN 978-0-7190-4558-5
  • Hoy, H. "'Dull, Simple, Amazing and Unfathomable': Paradox and Double Vision In Alice Munro's Fiction." Studies in Canadian Literature/Études en littérature canadienne, Volume 5.1. (1980).
  • Lecercle, Jean-Jacques. 'Alice Munro's Two Secrets.' In Ventura and Conde. 25–37.
  • Levene, Mark. "It Was About Vanishing: A Glimpse of Alice Munro's Stories." University of Toronto Quarterly 68.4 (Fall 1999): 841.
  • Lorre-Johnston,Christine, and Eleonora Rao, eds. Space and Place in Alice Munro's Fiction: "A Book with Maps in It." Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2018.ISBN 978-1-64014-020-2[1].
  • Lynch, Gerald. "No Honey, I'm Home." Canadian Literature 160 (Spring 1999): 73.
  • MacKendrick, Louis King. Some Other Reality: Alice Munro's Something I've Been Meaning to Tell You. (Toronto: ECW Press, 1993)
  • Martin, W.R. Alice Munro: paradox and parallel. (Edmonton: University of Alberta Press, 1987)
  • Mazur, Carol and Moulder, Cathy. Alice Munro: An Annotated Bibliography of Works and Criticism. (Toronto: Scarecrow Press, 2007) ISBN 978-0-8108-5924-1
  • McCaig, JoAnn. Reading In: Alice Munro's archives. (Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2002)
  • Miller, Judith, ed. The Art of Alice Munro: saying the unsayable: papers from the Waterloo conference. (Waterloo: Waterloo Press, 1984)
  • Munro, Sheila. Lives of Mother and Daughters: growing up with Alice Munro. (Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 2001)
  • Murray, Jennifer. Reading Alice Munro with Jacques Lacan. (Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2016)
  • Pfaus, B. Alice Munro. (Ottawa: Golden Dog Press, 1984.)
  • Rasporich, Beverly Jean. Dance of the Sexes: art and gender in the fiction of Alice Munro. (Edmonton: University of Alberta Press, 1990)
  • Redekop, Magdalene. Mothers and Other Clowns: the stories of Alice Munro. (New York: Routledge, 1992)
  • Ross, Catherine Sheldrick. Alice Munro: a double life. (Toronto: ECW Press, 1992.)
  • Simpson, Mona. A Quiet Genius The Atlantic. (December 2001)
  • Smythe, Karen E. Figuring Grief: Gallant, Munro and the poetics of elegy. (Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1992)
  • Somacarrera, Pilar. A Spanish Passion for the Canadian Short Story: Reader Responses to Alice Munro's Fiction in Web 2.0 Open Access, in: Made in Canada, Read in Spain: Essays on the Translation and Circulation of English-Canadian Literature Open Access, edited by Pilar Somacarrera, de Gruyter, Berlin 2013, p. 129–144, ISBN 978-83-7656-017-5
  • Steele, Apollonia and Tener, Jean F., editors. The Alice Munro Papers: Second Accession. (Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 1987)
  • Tausky, Thomas E. Biocritical Essay. The University of Calgary Library Special Collections (1986)
  • Thacker, Robert. Alice Munro: writing her lives: a biography. (Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 2005)
  • Thacker, Robert. Ed. The Rest of the Story: critical essays on Alice Munro. (Toronto: ECW Press, 1999)
  • Ventura, Héliane, and Mary Condé, eds. Alice Munro. Open Letter 11:9 (Fall-Winter 2003-4). ISSN 0048-1939. Proceedings of the Alice Munro conference L'écriture du secret/Writing Secrets, Université d'Orléans, 2003.

External links

 
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  • List of Works
  • Alice Munro at IMDb
  • Alice Munro collected news and commentary at The Guardian  
  • "Alice Munro, The Art of Fiction No. 137", The Paris Review No. 131, Summer 1994
  • W. H. New. "Literature in English".
  • at the British Council Writers Directory
  • Stories by Alice Munro accessible online
  • Alice Munro's papers (fonds) held at the University of Calgary
  • How To Tell If You Are in an Alice Munro Story, 8 December 2014
  • Alice Munro on Nobelprize.org   with a pre-recorded video conversation with the Laureate Alice Munro: In Her Own Words

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alice, munro, alice, munro, née, laidlaw, ɔː, born, july, 1931, canadian, short, story, writer, nobel, prize, literature, 2013, munro, work, been, described, revolutionizing, architecture, short, stories, especially, tendency, move, forward, backward, time, st. Alice Ann Munro m e n ˈ r oʊ nee Laidlaw ˈ l eɪ d l ɔː born 10 July 1931 is a Canadian short story writer who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2013 Munro s work has been described as revolutionizing the architecture of short stories especially in its tendency to move forward and backward in time 2 Her stories have been said to embed more than announce reveal more than parade 3 Alice MunroBornAlice Ann Laidlaw 1931 07 10 10 July 1931 age 91 Wingham Ontario CanadaOccupationShort story writerLanguageEnglishAlma materThe University of Western Ontario 1 GenreShort stories Realism Southern Ontario GothicNotable awardsGovernor General s Award 1968 1978 1986 Giller Prize 1998 2004 Man Booker International Prize 2009 Nobel Prize in Literature 2013 SpouseJames Munro m 1951 div 1972 wbr Gerald Fremlin m 1976 died 2013 wbr Children4Munro s fiction is most often set in her native Huron County in southwestern Ontario 4 Her stories explore human complexities in an uncomplicated prose style 5 Munro s writing has established her as one of our greatest contemporary writers of fiction or as Cynthia Ozick put it our Chekhov 6 Munro has received many literary accolades including the 2013 Nobel Prize in Literature for her work as master of the contemporary short story 7 and the 2009 Man Booker International Prize for her lifetime body of work She is also a three time winner of Canada s Governor General s Award for fiction and received the Writers Trust of Canada s 1996 Marian Engel Award and the 2004 Rogers Writers Trust Fiction Prize for Runaway 7 8 9 10 Contents 1 Early life and education 2 Career 3 Writing 3 1 Creating new versions 4 Personal life 5 Works 5 1 Original short story collections 5 2 Short story compilations 6 Selected awards and honours 6 1 Awards 6 2 Honours 7 References 8 Further reading 9 External linksEarly life and education EditMunro was born Alice Ann Laidlaw in Wingham Ontario Her father Robert Eric Laidlaw was a fox and mink farmer 11 and later turned to turkey farming 12 Her mother Anne Clarke Laidlaw nee Chamney was a schoolteacher She is of Irish and Scottish descent her father is a descendant of James Hogg the Ettrick Shepherd 13 Munro began writing as a teenager publishing her first story The Dimensions of a Shadow in 1950 while studying English and journalism at the University of Western Ontario on a two year scholarship 14 15 During this period she worked as a waitress a tobacco picker and a library clerk In 1951 she left the university where she had been majoring in English since 1949 to marry fellow student James Munro They moved to Dundarave West Vancouver for James s job in a department store In 1963 the couple moved to Victoria where they opened Munro s Books which still operates Career EditMunro s highly acclaimed first collection of stories Dance of the Happy Shades 1968 won the Governor General s Award then Canada s highest literary prize 16 That success was followed by Lives of Girls and Women 1971 a collection of interlinked stories In 1978 Munro s collection of interlinked stories Who Do You Think You Are was published titled The Beggar Maid Stories of Flo and Rose in the United States This book earned Munro a second Governor General s Literary Award 17 From 1979 to 1982 she toured Australia China and Scandinavia for public appearances and readings In 1980 Munro held the position of writer in residence at both the University of British Columbia and the University of Queensland From the 1980s to 2012 Munro published a short story collection at least once every four years First versions of Munro s stories have appeared in journals such as The Atlantic Monthly Grand Street Harper s Magazine Mademoiselle The New Yorker Narrative Magazine and The Paris Review Her collections have been translated into 13 languages 1 On 10 October 2013 Munro was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature cited as a master of the contemporary short story 7 8 18 She is the first Canadian and the 13th woman to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature 19 Munro is noted for her longtime association with editor and publisher Douglas Gibson 20 When Gibson left Macmillan of Canada in 1986 to launch the Douglas Gibson Books imprint at McClelland and Stewart Munro returned the advance Macmillan had already paid her for The Progress of Love so that she could follow Gibson to the new company 21 Munro and Gibson have retained their professional association ever since when Gibson published his memoirs in 2011 Munro wrote the introduction and to this day Gibson often makes public appearances on Munro s behalf when her health prevents her from appearing personally 22 Almost 20 of Munro s works have been made available for free on the web in most cases only the first versions 23 From the period before 2003 16 stories have been included in Munro s own compilations more than twice with two of her works scoring four republications Carried Away and Hateship Friendship Courtship Loveship Marriage 24 Film adaptations of Munro s short stories have included Martha Ruth and Edie 1988 Edge of Madness 2002 Away from Her 2006 Hateship Loveship 2013 and Julieta 2016 Writing EditMany of Munro s stories are set in Huron County Ontario Her strong regional focus is one of her fiction s features Asked after she won the Nobel Prize What can be so interesting in describing small town Canadian life Munro replied You just have to be there 25 Another feature is an omniscient narrator who serves to make sense of the world Many compare Munro s small town settings to writers from the rural American South As in the works of William Faulkner and Flannery O Connor Munro s characters often confront deep rooted customs and traditions but her characters reactions are generally less intense than their Southern counterparts Her male characters tend to capture the essence of the everyman while her female characters are more complex Much of Munro s work exemplifies the Southern Ontario Gothic literary genre 26 Munro s work is often compared with the great short story writers In her stories as in Chekhov s plot is secondary and little happens As in Chekhov Garan Holcombe says All is based on the epiphanic moment the sudden enlightenment the concise subtle revelatory detail Munro s work deals with love and work and the failings of both She shares Chekhov s obsession with time and our much lamented inability to delay or prevent its relentless movement forward 27 A frequent theme of her work particularly in her early stories has been the dilemmas of a girl coming of age and coming to terms with her family and her small hometown In recent work such as Hateship Friendship Courtship Loveship Marriage 2001 and Runaway 2004 she has shifted her focus to the travails of middle age women alone and the elderly Her characters often experience a revelation that sheds light on and gives meaning to an event Munro s prose reveals the ambiguities of life ironic and serious at the same time mottoes of godliness and honor and flaming bigotry special useless knowledge tones of shrill and happy outrage the bad taste the heartlessness the joy of it Her style juxtaposes the fantastic and the ordinary with each undercutting the other in ways that simply and effortlessly evoke life 28 Robert Thacker wrote Munro s writing creates an empathetic union among readers critics most apparent among them We are drawn to her writing by its verisimilitude not of mimesis so called and realism but rather the feeling of being itself of just being a human being 29 Many critics have written that Munro s stories often have the emotional and literary depth of novels Some have asked whether Munro actually writes short stories or novels Alex Keegan writing in Eclectica gave a simple answer Who cares In most Munro stories there is as much as in many novels 30 Research on Munro s work has been undertaken since the early 1970s with the first PhD thesis published in 1972 31 The first book length volume collecting the papers presented at the University of Waterloo first conference on her work was published in 1984 The Art of Alice Munro Saying the Unsayable 32 In 2003 2004 the journal Open Letter Canadian quarterly review of writing and sources published 14 contributions on Munro s work In autumn 2010 the Journal of the Short Story in English JSSE Les cahiers de la nouvelle dedicated a special issue to Munro and in May 2012 an issue of the journal Narrative focussed on a single story by Munro Passion 2004 with an introduction summary of the story and five analytical essays 33 Creating new versions Edit Munro publishes variant versions of her stories sometimes within a short span of time Her stories Save the Reaper and Passion came out in two different versions in the same year in 1998 and 2004 respectively Two other stories were republished in a variant versions about 30 years apart Home 1974 2006 2014 and Wood 1980 2009 34 In 2006 Ann Close and Lisa Dickler Awano reported that Munro had not wanted to reread the galleys of Runaway 2004 No because I ll rewrite the stories In their symposium contribution An Appreciation of Alice Munro they say that of her story Powers for example Munro did eight versions in all 35 Section variants of Wood Awano writes that Wood is a good example of how Munro a tireless self editor 36 rewrites and revises a story in this case returning to it for a second publication nearly 30 years later revising characterizations themes and perspectives as well as rhythmic syllables a conjunction or a punctuation mark The characters change too Inferring from the perspective they take on things they are middle age in 1980 and in 2009 they are older Awano perceives a heightened lyricism brought about not least by the poetic precision of the revision Munro undertakes 36 The 2009 version comprises eight sections to the 1980 version s three and has a new ending Awano writes that Munro literally refinishes the first take on the story with an ambiguity characteristic of Munro s endings and that Munro reimagines her stories throughout her work a variety of ways 36 Several stories were republished with considerable variation as to which content goes into which section This can be seen for example in Home The Progress of Love What Do You Want to Know For The Children Stay Save the Reaper The Bear Came Over the Mountain Passion The View From Castle Rock Wenlock Edge and Deep Holes Personal life EditShe married James Munro in 1951 Their daughters Sheila Catherine and Jenny were born in 1953 1955 and 1957 respectively Catherine died the day of her birth due to the lack of functioning kidneys 37 In 1963 the Munros moved to Victoria where they opened Munro s Books a popular bookstore still in business In 1966 their daughter Andrea was born Alice and James Munro divorced in 1972 Munro returned to Ontario to become writer in residence at the University of Western Ontario and in 1976 received an honorary LLD from the institution In 1976 she married Gerald Fremlin a cartographer and geographer she met in her university days 14 The couple moved to a farm outside Clinton Ontario and later to a house in Clinton where Fremlin died on 17 April 2013 aged 88 38 Munro and Fremlin also owned a home in Comox British Columbia 1 At a Toronto appearance in October 2009 Munro indicated that she had received treatment for cancer and for a heart condition requiring coronary artery bypass surgery 39 In 2002 Sheila Munro published a childhood memoir Lives of Mothers and Daughters Growing Up with Alice Munro 40 Works EditMain article List of short stories by Alice Munro Original short story collections Edit Dance of the Happy Shades 1968 winner of the 1968 Governor General s Award for Fiction Lives of Girls and Women 1971 winner of the Canadian Bookseller s Award 41 Something I ve Been Meaning to Tell You 1974 Who Do You Think You Are 1978 winner of the 1978 Governor General s Award for Fiction also published as The Beggar Maid short listed for the Booker Prize for Fiction in 1980 41 The Moons of Jupiter 1982 nominated for a Governor General s Award The Progress of Love 1986 winner of the 1986 Governor General s Award for Fiction Friend of My Youth 1990 winner of the Trillium Book Award Open Secrets 1994 nominated for a Governor General s Award The Love of a Good Woman 1998 winner of the 1998 Giller Prize and the 1998 National Book Critics Circle Award Hateship Friendship Courtship Loveship Marriage 2001 republished as Away from Her Runaway 2004 winner of the Giller Prize and Rogers Writers Trust Fiction Prize The View from Castle Rock 2006 Too Much Happiness 2009 Dear Life 2012Short story compilations Edit Selected Stories later retitled Selected Stories 1968 1994 and A Wilderness Station Selected Stories 1968 1994 1996 No Love Lost 2003 Vintage Munro 2004 Alice Munro s Best A Selection of Stories Toronto 2006 Carried Away A Selection of Stories New York 2006 both 17 stories spanning 1977 2004 with an introduction by Margaret Atwood My Best Stories 2009 New Selected Stories 2011 Lying Under the Apple Tree New Selected Stories 434 pages 15 stories 42 c Alice Munro 2011 Vintage London 2014 paperback Family Furnishings Selected Stories 1995 2014 2014Selected awards and honours EditAwards Edit Governor General s Literary Award for English language fiction 1968 1978 1986 Canadian Booksellers Award for Lives of Girls and women 1971 Shortlisted for the annual UK Booker Prize for Fiction 1980 for The Beggar Maid The Writers Trust of Canada s Marian Engel Award 1986 for her body of work 10 Rogers Writers Trust Fiction Prize 2004 for Runaway 43 Trillium Book Award for Friend of My Youth 1991 The Love of a Good Woman 1999 and Dear Life 2013 44 WH Smith Literary Award 1995 UK for Open Secrets Lannan Literary Award for Fiction 1995 PEN Malamud Award for Excellence in Short Fiction 1997 National Book Critics Circle Award 1998 U S For The Love of a Good Woman Giller Prize 1998 and 2004 Rea Award for the Short Story 2001 given to a living American or Canadian author Libris Award Edward MacDowell Medal for outstanding contribution to the arts by the MacDowell Colony 2006 45 O Henry Award for continuing achievement in short fiction in the U S for Passion 2006 What Do You Want To Know For 2008 and Corrie 2012 Man Booker International Prize 2009 UK 46 Canada Australia Literary Prize Commonwealth Writers Prize Regional Award for Canada and the Caribbean Nobel Prize in Literature 2013 as a master of the contemporary short story 7 Honours Edit 1992 Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters 1993 Royal Society of Canada s Lorne Pierce Medal 2005 Medal of Honor for Literature from the U S National Arts Club 2010 Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters 47 2014 Silver coin released by the Royal Canadian Mint in honour of Munro s Nobel Prize win 48 2015 Postage stamp released by Canada Post in honour of Munro s Nobel Prize win 49 References Edit a b c Preface Dance of the Happy Shades Alice Munro First Vintage contemporaries Edition August 1998 ISBN 0 679 78151 X Vintage Books A Division of Random House Inc New York City Bosman Julie 10 October 2013 Alice Munro Wins Nobel Prize in Literature The New York Times ISSN 0362 4331 Retrieved 5 March 2023 W H New Literature in English The Canadian Encyclopedia Retrieved 18 August 2019 Marchand P 29 August 2009 Open Book Philip Marchand on Too Much Happiness by Alice Munro The National Post Retrieved 5 September 2009 permanent dead link Meyer M Alice Munro Meyer Literature Archived from the original on 12 December 2007 Retrieved 21 November 2007 Merkin Daphne 24 October 2004 Northern Exposures The New York Times Magazine Retrieved 25 February 2008 a b c d The Nobel Prize in Literature 2013 Press Release PDF 10 October 2013 Retrieved 10 October 2013 a b Bosman Julie 10 October 2013 Alice Munro Wins Nobel Prize in Literature The New York Times Retrieved 10 October 2013 Alice Munro wins Man Booker International prize The Guardian 27 May 2009 a b Past Writers Trust Engel Findley Award Winners Retrieved 7 April 2014 The Art of Fiction No 137 Vol Summer 1994 no 131 1994 ISSN 0031 2037 Retrieved 5 March 2023 Gaunce Julia Suzette Mayr Don LePan Marjorie Mather and Bryanne Miller eds Alice Munro The Broadview Anthology of Short Fiction 2nd ed Buffalo NY Broadview Press 2012 Taylor Catherine 10 October 2013 For Alice Munro small is beautiful Archived from the original on 12 January 2022 via www telegraph co uk a b Jason Winders 10 October 2013 Alice Munro LLD 76 wins 2013 Nobel Prize in Literature Western News The University of Western Ontario Canada s Alice Munro master of short stories wins Nobel Prize in literature CNN 10 October 2013 Retrieved 11 October 2013 Past GG Winners 1968 canadacouncil ca Archived from the original on 14 October 2013 Retrieved 10 October 2013 Past GG Winners 1978 canadacouncil ca Archived from the original on 14 October 2013 Retrieved 10 October 2013 Alice Munro wins Nobel Prize for Literature BBC News 10 October 2013 Retrieved 10 October 2013 Saul Bellow the 1976 laureate was born in Canada but he moved to the United States at age nine and became a US citizen at twenty six Panofsky Ruth 2012 The Literary Legacy of the Macmillan Company of Canada Making Books and Mapping Culture Toronto University of Toronto Press ISBN 978 0 8020 9877 1 Munro follows publisher Gibson from Macmillan Toronto Star 30 April 1986 Ahearn Victoria 11 October 2013 Alice Munro unlikely to come out of retirement following Nobel win CTVNews Retrieved 5 March 2023 Which of the stories have free Web versions For further details see List of short stories by Alice Munro Hall Linda 26 October 2017 What s the best way to find fans of Alice Munro Start quoting her work The Globe and Mail Retrieved 5 March 2023 Susanne Becker Gothic Forms of Feminine Fictions Manchester University Press 1999 Holcombe Garan 2005 Alice Munro Contemporary Writers London British Arts Council Archived from the original on 30 September 2007 Retrieved 20 June 2007 Hoy Helen 1980 Dull Simple Amazing and Unfathomable Paradox and Double Vision In Alice Munro s Fiction Studies in Canadian Literature University of New Brunswick 5 1 Retrieved 20 June 2007 Thacker Robert 1998 Review of Some other reality Alice Munro s Something I ve been Meaning to Tell You by Louis K MacKendrick Journal of Canadian Studies Summer 1998 Keegan Alex August September 1998 Munro The Short Answer Eclectica 2 5 Archived from the original on 25 June 2007 Retrieved 20 June 2007 Struthers J R Tim 1 January 1981 Some Highly Subversive Activities A Brief Polemic and a Checklist of Works on Alice Munro Studies in Canadian Literature ISSN 1718 7850 Ventura Heliane 1 December 2010 Introduction Journal of the Short Story in English Les Cahiers de la nouvelle 55 55 Autumn 2010 Special issue The Short Stories of Alice Munro in French a href Template Cite journal html title Template Cite journal cite journal a Cite journal requires journal help For details please see List of short stories by Alice Munro An Appreciation of Alice Munro VQR Online www vqronline org Retrieved 5 March 2023 a b c Kindling The Creative Fire Alice Munro s Two Versions of Wood New Haven Review Retrieved 5 March 2023 Thacker Robert 2014 Alice Munro Biographical Nobelprize org Retrieved 5 August 2018 Gerald Fremlin obituary Clinton News Record April 2013 Retrieved 1 July 2013 The Canadian Press 22 October 2009 Alice Munro reveals cancer fight CBC News Retrieved 11 March 2010 Harrison Kathryn 16 June 2002 Go Ask Alice The New York Times Retrieved 15 July 2016 a b Besner Neil K Introducing Alice Munro s Lives of Girls and Women A Reader s Guide Toronto ECW Press 1990 See List of short stories by Alice Munro Past Rogers Writers Trust Fiction Prize Winners Archived from the original on 1 September 2018 Retrieved 7 April 2014 Trillium Book Award Winners omdc on ca Archived from the original on 29 October 2013 Retrieved 10 October 2013 Medal Day History MacDowell Colony Archived from the original on 10 August 2016 Retrieved 1 July 2015 The Booker Prize Foundation Alice Munro wins 2009 Man Booker International Prize Archived 2 July 2009 at the Wayback Machine ARCHIVED Canada Gazette GOVERNMENT HOUSE Gazette gc ca 9 November 2012 Archived from the original on 23 May 2013 Retrieved 1 May 2013 Mint releases silver coin to honour Alice Munro s Nobel win The Globe and Mail 24 March 2014 Retrieved 7 April 2014 Alice Munro 10 July 2015 Retrieved 27 July 2015 Further reading EditAtwood Margaret et al Appreciations of Alice Munro Virginia Quarterly Review 82 3 Summer 2006 91 107 Interviews with various authors Margaret Atwood Russell Banks Michael Cunningham Charles McGrath Daniel Menaker and others presented in first person essay format Awano Lisa Dickler Kindling The Creative Fire Alice Munro s Two Versions of Wood New Haven Review 30 May 2012 Examining overall themes in Alice Munro s fiction through a study of her two versions of Wood Awano Lisa Dickler Alice Munro s Too Much Happiness Virginia Quarterly Review 22 October 2010 Long form book review of Too Much Happiness in the context of Alice Munro s canon Besner Neil Kalman Introducing Alice Munro s Lives of Girls and Women a reader s guide Toronto ECW Press 1990 Blodgett E D Alice Munro Boston Twayne Publishers 1988 Buchholtz Miroslawa ed Alice Munro Understanding Adapting Teaching Springer International Publishing 2016 Carrington Ildiko de Papp Controlling the Uncontrollable the fiction of Alice Munro DeKalb Northern Illinois University Press 1989 Carscallen James The Other Country patterns in the writing of Alice Munro Toronto ECW Press 1993 Cox Alisa Alice Munro Tavistock Northcote House 2004 Dahlie Hallvard Alice Munro and Her Works Toronto ECW Press 1984 Davey Frank Class Family Furnishings and Munro s Early Stories In Ventura and Conde 79 88 de Papp Carrington Ildiko What s in a Title Alice Munro s Carried Away Studies in Short Fiction 20 4 Fall 1993 555 Dolnick Ben A Beginner s Guide to Alice Munro The Millions 5 July 2012 Elliott Gayle A Different Track Feminist meta narrative in Alice Munro s Friend of My Youth Journal of Modern Literature 20 1 Summer 1996 75 Fowler Rowena The Art of Alice Munro The Beggar Maid and Lives of Girls and Women Critique 25 4 Summer 1984 189 Garson Marjorie Alice Munro and Charlotte Bronte University of Toronto Quarterly 69 4 Fall 2000 783 Genoways Ted Ordinary Outsiders Virginia Quarterly Review 82 3 Summer 2006 80 81 Gibson Douglas Stories About Storytellers Publishing Alice Munro Robertson Davies Alistair MacLeod Pierre Trudeau and Others ECW Press 2011 Excerpt Gittings Christopher E Constructing a Scots Canadian Ground Family history and cultural translation in Alice Munro Studies in Short Fiction 34 1 Winter 1997 27 Hebel Ajay The Tumble of Reason Alice Munro s discourse of absence Toronto University of Toronto Press 1994 Hiscock Andrew Longing for a Human Climate Alice Munro s Friend of My Youth and the culture of loss Journal of Commonwealth Literature 32 2 1997 18 Hooper Brad The Fiction of Alice Munro An Appreciation Westport Conn Praeger 2008 ISBN 978 0 275 99121 0 Houston Pam A Hopeful Sign The making of metonymic meaning in Munro s Meneseteung Kenyon Review 14 4 Fall 1992 79 Howells Coral Ann Alice Munro New York Manchester University Press 1998 ISBN 978 0 7190 4558 5 Hoy H Dull Simple Amazing and Unfathomable Paradox and Double Vision In Alice Munro s Fiction Studies in Canadian Literature Etudes en litterature canadienne Volume 5 1 1980 Lecercle Jean Jacques Alice Munro s Two Secrets In Ventura and Conde 25 37 Levene Mark It Was About Vanishing A Glimpse of Alice Munro s Stories University of Toronto Quarterly 68 4 Fall 1999 841 Lorre Johnston Christine and Eleonora Rao eds Space and Place in Alice Munro s Fiction A Book with Maps in It Rochester NY Camden House 2018 ISBN 978 1 64014 020 2 1 Lynch Gerald No Honey I m Home Canadian Literature 160 Spring 1999 73 MacKendrick Louis King Some Other Reality Alice Munro s Something I ve Been Meaning to Tell You Toronto ECW Press 1993 Martin W R Alice Munro paradox and parallel Edmonton University of Alberta Press 1987 Mazur Carol and Moulder Cathy Alice Munro An Annotated Bibliography of Works and Criticism Toronto Scarecrow Press 2007 ISBN 978 0 8108 5924 1 McCaig JoAnn Reading In Alice Munro s archives Waterloo Wilfrid Laurier University Press 2002 Miller Judith ed The Art of Alice Munro saying the unsayable papers from the Waterloo conference Waterloo Waterloo Press 1984 Munro Sheila Lives of Mother and Daughters growing up with Alice Munro Toronto McClelland amp Stewart 2001 Murray Jennifer Reading Alice Munro with Jacques Lacan Montreal McGill Queen s University Press 2016 Pfaus B Alice Munro Ottawa Golden Dog Press 1984 Rasporich Beverly Jean Dance of the Sexes art and gender in the fiction of Alice Munro Edmonton University of Alberta Press 1990 Redekop Magdalene Mothers and Other Clowns the stories of Alice Munro New York Routledge 1992 Ross Catherine Sheldrick Alice Munro a double life Toronto ECW Press 1992 Simpson Mona A Quiet Genius The Atlantic December 2001 Smythe Karen E Figuring Grief Gallant Munro and the poetics of elegy Montreal McGill Queen s University Press 1992 Somacarrera Pilar A Spanish Passion for the Canadian Short Story Reader Responses to Alice Munro s Fiction in Web 2 0 Open Access in Made in Canada Read in Spain Essays on the Translation and Circulation of English Canadian Literature Open Access edited by Pilar Somacarrera de Gruyter Berlin 2013 p 129 144 ISBN 978 83 7656 017 5 Steele Apollonia and Tener Jean F editors The Alice Munro Papers Second Accession Calgary University of Calgary Press 1987 Tausky Thomas E Biocritical Essay The University of Calgary Library Special Collections 1986 Thacker Robert Alice Munro writing her lives a biography Toronto McClelland amp Stewart 2005 Thacker Robert Ed The Rest of the Story critical essays on Alice Munro Toronto ECW Press 1999 Ventura Heliane and Mary Conde eds Alice Munro Open Letter 11 9 Fall Winter 2003 4 ISSN 0048 1939 Proceedings of the Alice Munro conference L ecriture du secret Writing Secrets Universite d Orleans 2003 External links Edit Wikiquote has quotations related to Alice Munro Wikimedia Commons has media related to Alice Munro Works by or about Alice Munro in libraries WorldCat catalog List of Works Alice Munro at IMDb Alice Munro collected news and commentary at The Guardian Alice Munro The Art of Fiction No 137 The Paris Review No 131 Summer 1994 W H New Literature in English Alice Munro at the British Council Writers Directory Stories by Alice Munro accessible online Alice Munro s papers fonds held at the University of Calgary How To Tell If You Are in an Alice Munro Story 8 December 2014 Alice Munro on Nobelprize org with a pre recorded video conversation with the Laureate Alice Munro In Her Own Words Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Alice Munro amp oldid 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