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Munro, Alice
(Alice Laidlaw)
(1931–)
2013
 

Biography

Alice Ann Munro (née Laidlaw; born 10 July 1931) is a Canadian author writing in English. The recipient of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Literature 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.

The focus of Munro's fiction is her native Huron County in southwestern Ontario. 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." In 2013, Munro was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for her work as "master of the modern short story".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Munro

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