Canadian short-story writer of Dance of the Happy Shades and Runaway, hailed as a master of the form and a Nobel laureate
Did you know?She opened a bookshop with her first husband in Victoria, British Columbia, which is still in business today.
Quick facts
Date of birth10 July 1931
Date of death13 May 2024
Age at death92
NationalityCanadian
BirthplaceWingham, Canada
Occupationwriter, screenwriter, novelist
Editor's Take:
Alice Munro was a master of the short story. She grew up in rural Ontario, the setting for most of her work. She wrote in the gaps of family life, raising three daughters. Her stories cover whole lives in a few pages, moving back and forth in time. They reveal hidden secrets in ordinary small-town people. She won the Nobel Prize in 2013. After her death, her daughter revealed that Munro had stayed with a husband who abused her.
Key Milestones
1963: Munro's Books – opens
1968: Dance of the Happy Shades – first book
2001: Hateship, Friendship – stories
2009: Booker International – prize
Alice Ann Munro ( mən-ROH; née Laidlaw; 10 July 1931 – 13 May 2024) was a Canadian short story writer who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2013. Her work tends to move forward and backward in time, with integrated short story cycles.
