Canadian Author and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2013, Alice Munro passed away at the age of 92 on May 14, 2024. Know all about Alice Munro and her works…
New Delhi: Reading is a habit everyone must inculcate and the best way to begin reading is short stories that are engaging and help you build on the habit. Speaking of short stories, Alice Ann Munro, the Canadian short story writer, who also won the Nobel Prize In Literature in the year 2013, has passed away at the age of 92 on May 14, 2024. Described as the ‘master of the short story’, Alice Munro explored human complexities in her stories in an easy, uncomplicated manner. Alice was not just a Nobel laureate, but also won the Man Booker International Prize in 2009 for her lifetime body of work among other awards. Know who is Alice Ann Munro and her also about her best works…
Who Is Alice Munro, Canadian Author Who Passed Away At 92
Born in Wingham, Ontario as Alice Ann Laidlaw, the Canadian author knew she wanted to pursue writing since an early age as she started writing as a teenager and her first story, ‘The Dimensions of a Shadow’ was published in 1950 when she was studying English and Journalism in University of Western Ontario. Alice Munro’s first collection of stories, ‘Dance of the Happy Shades’ in 1968 won the then-highest literary prize of Canada- Governor General’s Award. After that, Munro published ‘Lives of Girls and Women’ in 1971 followed by ‘Who Do You Think You Are?’ which led her to win her second Governor General’s Literary Award and shortlisted for the Booker Prize for Fiction under its international title ‘The Beggar Maid’.
In 1980, Alice Munro became the writer in residence at the University of British Columbia and University of Queensland and from then to 2012, Alice Munro published a short story collection once every four years. Her stories have been translated into 13 languages and was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, cited as ‘master of the contemporary short story’; she was the thirteenth woman and first Canadian to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.
5 Best Books Of Alice Munro
Alice Munro’s stories explored sex, yearning, discontent, aging, moral conflict and other themes in rural settings with which she was intimately familiar – villages and farms in the Canadian province of Ontario where she lived. She was adept at fully developing complex characters within the limited pages of a short story. Her works included –
- Dance of the Happy Shades (1968)
- Lives of Girls and Women (1971)
- Who Do You Think You Are? (1978)
- The Moons of Jupiter (1982)
- Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage (2001)
- Runaway (2004)
- The View from Castle Rock (2006)
- Too Much Happiness (2009)
- Dear Life (2012)
Her story of a woman who starts losing her memory and agrees to enter a nursing home titled “The Bear Came Over the Mountain,” from “Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage,” was adapted into the Oscar-nominated 2006 film “Away From Her,” directed by fellow Canadian Sarah Polley.
(Inputs from Reuters)