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Alice Munro (1931-2024)

Birthplace:
Wingham, Ontario, Canada

Born:
July 10, 1931

Died:
May 13, 2024

Biography from TheMovieDB

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.  Alice Ann Munro (née Laidlaw; born 10 July 1931) was a Canadian short-story writer, winner of the 2009 Man Booker International Prize for her lifetime body of work, three-time winner of Canada's Governor General's Award for fiction, and a perennial contender for the Nobel Prize. Generally regarded to be one of the world's foremost writers of fiction, her stories focused on the human condition and relationships seen through the lens of daily life. While the locus of Munro’s fiction was Southwestern Ontario, her reputation as a short-story writer is international. Her "accessible, moving stories" explore human complexities in a seemingly effortless style. Munro's writing established her as "one of our greatest contemporary writers of fiction," or, as Cynthia Ozick put it, "our Chekhov."  Description above from the Wikipedia article Alice Munro, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.​

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Novel:
1996  Lives of Girls & Women
2014  Hateship Loveship

Short Story:
1974  The Ottawa Valley
1983  Boys and Girls
1996  Lives of Girls & Women
2002  Edge of Madness
2007  Away from Her
2008  Canaan
2014  Hateship Loveship
2016  Julieta
????  Free Radicals

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