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{{Short description|Canadian short story writer (1931–2024)}}
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{{Infobox writer
| honorific_suffix = {{post-nominals|country=CAN|size=100%|OOnt}}
| image            = Alice Munro 2006 (cropped).jpg
| caption          = Munro in 2006
| birth_name       = Alice Ann Laidlaw
| birth_date       = {{Birth date|df=y|1931|07|10}}
| birth_place      = [[Wingham, Ontario]], Canada
| death_date       = {{Death date and age|df=yes|2024|05|13|1931|07|10}}
| death_place      = [[Port Hope, Ontario]], Canada
| occupation       = Short story writer
| language         = English
| education        = [[University of Western Ontario]]
| genre            = {{cslist|Short fiction|[[short story cycle]]|literary fiction}}
| spouse           = {{plainlist|
* {{marriage|James Munro|1951|1972|reason=divorced}}
* {{marriage|Gerald Fremlin|1976|2013|end=died}}}}
| children         = 4<!-- 4 total, though one died after birth which, of course, counts as a child -->
| awards           = {{Indented plainlist|class=nowraplinks|
* {{awd|[[Governor General's Award for English-language fiction|Governor General's Award]]|1968, 1978, 1986}}
* {{awd|[[Giller Prize]]|1998, 2004}}
* {{awd|[[Man Booker International Prize]]|2009}}
* {{awd|[[Nobel Prize in Literature]]|[[2013 Nobel Prize in Literature|2013]]}}}}
}}

'''Alice Ann Munro''' {{post-nominals|country=CAN|OOnt}} ({{IPAc-en|m|ə|n|ˈ|r|oʊ}} {{respell|mən|ROH}}; {{née|'''Laidlaw'''}}; 10 July 1931 – 13 May 2024) was a Canadian [[short story]] writer who was awarded the [[2013 Nobel Prize in Literature|Nobel Prize in Literature in 2013]]. Her work tends to move forward and backward in time, with integrated [[short story cycle]]s.

Munro's fiction is most often set in her native [[Huron County, Ontario|Huron County]] in [[southwestern Ontario]]. Her stories explore human complexities in a simple but meticulous prose style. Munro received the [[Man Booker International Prize]] in 2009 for her life's work. She was also a three-time winner of Canada's [[Governor General's Award for English-language fiction|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 (book)|Runaway]]''. She stopped writing around 2013 and died at her home in 2024.

==Early life==

Munro was born Alice Ann Laidlaw in [[Wingham, Ontario]]. Her father, Robert Eric Laidlaw, was a fox and mink farmer,<ref>{{Cite periodical|magazine=[[The Paris Review]]|first1= Jeanne |last1=McCulloch|first2=Mona|last2=Simpson|title=The Art of Fiction No. 137|language=en|date=Summer 1994|issue=131|url=https://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/1791/the-art-of-fiction-no-137-alice-munro|access-date=5 March 2023|issn=0031-2037}}</ref> and later turned to turkey farming.<ref>{{cite book|editor1-first=Julia|editor1-last=Gaunce|editor2-first=Suzette|editor2-last=Mayr|editor3-first=Don|editor3-last=LePan|editor4-first=Marjorie|editor4-last=Mather|editor5-first=Bryanne|editor5-last=Miller|chapter=Alice Munro|title=The Broadview Anthology of Short Fiction|edition=2nd|publisher=Broadview Press|location=Buffalo, New York|date=2012|isbn=978-1554811410}}</ref> Her mother, Anne Clarke Laidlaw (née Chamney), was a schoolteacher. She was of Irish and Scottish descent; her father was a descendant of Scottish poet [[James Hogg]], the Ettrick Shepherd.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/10369527/For-Alice-Munro-small-is-beautiful.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220112/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/10369527/For-Alice-Munro-small-is-beautiful.html |archive-date=12 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title=For Alice Munro, small is beautiful|first=Catherine|last=Taylor|date=10 October 2013|work=[[The Daily Telegraph]]}}{{cbignore}}</ref>

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.<ref name="Westernnews">{{cite web| url=http://communications.uwo.ca/western_news/stories/2013/October/alice_munro_lld76_wins__2013_nobel_prize_in_literature.html| title=Alice Munro, LLD'76, wins 2013 Nobel Prize in Literature| author=Jason Winders| date=10 October 2013| work=Western News| publisher=The University of Western Ontario| access-date=10 October 2013| archivedate=2 March 2014| archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140302104231/http://communications.uwo.ca/western_news/stories/2013/October/alice_munro_lld76_wins__2013_nobel_prize_in_literature.html| url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.cnn.com/2013/10/10/living/nobel-prize-literature/ |title=Canada's Alice Munro, 'master' of short stories, wins Nobel Prize in literature |publisher=[[CNN]] |access-date=11 October 2013 |date=10 October 2013 }}</ref> During this period she worked as a waitress, a tobacco picker, and a library clerk.<ref name="tgriches">{{cite news |last1=Edemariam |first1=Aida |title=Alice Munro: Riches of a double life |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2003/oct/04/featuresreviews.guardianreview8 |access-date=15 May 2024 |work=[[The Guardian]] |date=4 October 2003}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.vogue.com/article/alice-munro-obituary#:~:text=Munro%20attended%20the%20University%20of,in%20Victoria%2C%20Canada%20in%201963|title=Nobel Prize-Winning Author Alice Munro Has Died at 92|work=Vogue|accessdate=15 May 2024|date=14 May 2024}}</ref> In 1951, she left the university, where she had been majoring in English since 1949,<ref name="tgriches"/> to marry fellow student James Munro.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.biography.com/authors-writers/alice-munro|title=Alice Munro|accessdate=15 May 2024|website=[[Biography.com|Biography]]|archive-date=29 March 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230329163110/https://www.biography.com/authors-writers/alice-munro|url-status=live}}</ref> They moved to [[Dundarave, West Vancouver]], for James' job in a department store. In 1963, the couple moved to [[Victoria, British Columbia|Victoria]], where they opened [[Munro's Books]], which still operates.<ref>
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She had four children with James Munro (one died shortly after birth),<ref>{{cite web|url=https://uk.news.yahoo.com/alice-munro-nobel-prize-winner-175751211.html|title=Alice Munro, Nobel Prize winner and "master of the short story," dies at 92|publisher=[[CNN]]|first=Yahya|last=Salem|date=14 May 2024}}</ref> and when the children were still young she would attempt to write whenever she could; her husband encouraged her by sending her into the book shop while he looked after the children and cooked.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/article/2024/may/15/alice-munro-remembered-short-story|title='Reading her stories is like watching a virtuoso pianist perform': Alice Munro remembered|work=[[The Guardian]]|first=Lisa|last=Allardice|date=15 May 2024}}</ref> In 1961, after she had had a few stories published in [[Little magazine|small magazines]], the ''[[Vancouver Sun]]'' ran a brief article on her, titled "Housewife Finds Time to Write Short Stories", and called her the "least praised good writer".<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/dec/06/alice-munro-interview-nobel-prize-short-story-literature|work=[[The Guardian]]|title=Interview. Nobel prizewinner Alice Munro: 'It's a wonderful thing for the short story'|first=Lisa|last=Allardice|date=6 December 2013}}</ref> She found it difficult, even with her husband's help, to find the time among "the pile up of unavoidable household jobs" to write, and found it easier to concentrate on short stories, rather than the novels her publisher wanted her to write.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2001/12/bringing-life-to-life/378234/|title=Bringing Life to Life|work=[[The Atlantic]]|first=Cara|last=Feinberg|date=1 December 2001}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/comment/saying-goodbye-to-the-extraordinary-alice-munro-622525|title=Saying goodbye to the extraordinary Alice Munro|first=GJV|last=Prasad|work=[[The Tribune India]]|date=19 May 2024}}</ref>

==Career==

Munro's first collection of stories, ''[[Dance of the Happy Shades]]'' (1968), won the [[Governor General's Award]], then Canada's highest literary prize.<ref>{{cite web |title=Past GG Winners 1968 |url=http://ggbooks.canadacouncil.ca/en/about-apropos/archives/1968/winners |publisher=canadacouncil.ca |access-date=14 May 2024 |url-status=deviated |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131014182830/http://ggbooks.canadacouncil.ca/en/about-apropos/archives/1968/winners |archive-date=14 October 2013}}</ref> 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? (book)|Who Do You Think You Are?]]'' was published. This book earned Munro a second Governor General's Literary Award<ref>{{cite web |title=Past GG Winners 1978 |url=http://ggbooks.canadacouncil.ca/en/about-apropos/archives/1978/winners |publisher=canadacouncil.ca |url-status=deviated |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131014182927/http://ggbooks.canadacouncil.ca/en/about-apropos/archives/1978/winners |archive-date=14 October 2013}}</ref> and was shortlisted for the [[Booker Prize for Fiction]] in 1980 under its international title, ''[[Who Do You Think You Are? (book)|The Beggar Maid]]''.<ref>{{cite web|publisher=Booker Prize Foundation|url=https://thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-library/prize-years/1980|title=The Booker Prize 1980|access-date=7 March 2024|archivedate=7 May 2023|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20230507155938/https://thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-library/prize-years/1980|url-status=live}}</ref>

From 1979 to 1982, Munro toured Australia, China and Scandinavia for public appearances and readings.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.macdowell.org/artists/alice-munro|title=Alice Munro|publisher=MacDowell.org|accessdate=14 May 2024|archivedate=3 December 2023|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20231203051151/https://www.macdowell.org/artists/alice-munro|url-status=live}}</ref> In 1980, she held the position of writer in residence at both the [[University of British Columbia]] and the [[University of Queensland]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-24478539|title=Profile: Alice Munro|date=10 October 2013 |work=BBC News|accessdate=14 May 2024|archivedate=31 October 2021|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20211031054441/https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-24478539|url-status=live}}</ref>

From the 1980s to 2012, Munro published a [[short story collection]] at least once every four years. First versions of Munro's stories appeared in journals such as ''[[The Atlantic Monthly]]'', ''[[Grand Street (magazine)|Grand Street]]'', ''[[Harper's Magazine]]'', ''[[Mademoiselle (magazine)|Mademoiselle]]'', ''[[The New Yorker]]'', ''[[Narrative Magazine]]'', and ''[[The Paris Review]]''. Her collections have been translated into 13 languages.<ref name=HappyShadesVintage1998>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.</ref> In 2013, Munro was awarded the [[Nobel Prize in Literature]], cited as a "master of the contemporary short story".<ref name="nobelprize.org">{{cite web |url=https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/2013/press.pdf |title=The Nobel Prize in Literature 2013 – Press Release |date=10 October 2013 |access-date=10 October 2013 |archivedate=12 October 2013 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20131012073434/http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/2013/press.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Bosman |first=Julie |title=Alice Munro Wins Nobel Prize in Literature |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/11/books/alice-munro-wins-nobel-prize-in-literature.html |date=10 October 2013 |work=[[The New York Times]] |access-date=10 October 2013 |archivedate=9 November 2017 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20171109185545/http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/11/books/alice-munro-wins-nobel-prize-in-literature.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-24477246 |title=Alice Munro wins Nobel Prize for Literature |work=BBC News |date=10 October 2013 |access-date=10 October 2013}}</ref> She was the first Canadian and the 13th woman<!-- do not insert woman--> to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature.<ref>[[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.</ref>

Munro had a longtime association with editor and publisher [[Douglas Gibson]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Panofsky|first=Ruth|title=The Literary Legacy of the Macmillan Company of Canada: Making Books and Mapping Culture|year=2012|publisher=University of Toronto Press|location=Toronto|isbn=978-0-8020-9877-1}}</ref> When Gibson left [[Macmillan of Canada]] in 1986 to launch the [[Douglas Gibson Books]] imprint at [[McClelland & Stewart]], Munro returned the advance Macmillan had paid her for ''[[The Progress of Love]]'' so that she could follow Gibson to the new company.<ref>"Munro follows publisher Gibson from Macmillan". ''[[Toronto Star]]'', 30 April 1986.</ref> When Gibson published his memoirs in 2011, Munro wrote the introduction, and Gibson often made public appearances on Munro's behalf when her health prevented her from appearing personally.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Ahearn|first=Victoria|date=11 October 2013|title=Alice Munro unlikely to come out of retirement following Nobel win|url=https://www.ctvnews.ca/entertainment/article/alice-munro-unlikely-to-come-out-of-retirement-following-nobel-win/|access-date=5 March 2023|website=CTVNews|language=en|archive-date=5 March 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230305095610/https://www.ctvnews.ca/entertainment/alice-munro-unlikely-to-come-out-of-retirement-following-nobel-win-1.1494171|url-status=live}}</ref>

Almost 20 of Munro's works have been made available for free on the web, in most cases only the first versions.<ref>[[List of short stories by Alice Munro#Short stories by title (sortable)|Which of the stories have free Web versions]].</ref>{{Circular reference|date=August 2024}} 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". {{Crossreference|(For further details, see [[List of short stories by Alice Munro]].)}}

Film adaptations of Munro's short stories include ''[[Martha, Ruth and Edie]]'' (1988), ''[[Edge of Madness]]'' (2002), ''[[Away from Her]]'' (2006), ''[[Hateship, Loveship]]'' (2013) and ''[[Julieta (film)|Julieta]]'' (2016).<ref name=NYTobit>
{{cite news
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 | title         = Alice Munro, Nobel Laureate and Master of the Short Story, Dies at 92
 | work          = The New York Times
 | date          = 14 May 2024
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==Writing==

Many of Munro's stories are set in [[Huron County, Ontario]].<ref>{{cite news | last = Marchand | first = Philip | date = 29 August 2009 | url = https://www.newspapers.com/image/514423514 | title = She'll Curl Your Hair | newspaper = [[National Post]] | location = Toronto | publisher = CanWest MediaWorks INC. | page = 36 | access-date = 14 May 2024 | url-access = subscription | via = [[Newspapers.com]] | archive-date = 15 May 2024 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20240515211506/https://www.newspapers.com/image/514423514 | url-status = live }}</ref> 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?", she replied: "You just have to be there."<ref>{{Cite news|last=Hall|first=Linda|date=26 October 2017|title=What's the best way to find fans of Alice Munro? Start quoting her work|language=en-CA|work=The Globe and Mail|url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/facts-and-arguments/whats-the-best-way-to-find-fans-of-alice-munro-start-quoting-herwork/article36727824/|access-date=5 March 2023|archivedate=28 December 2022|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20221228205141/https://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/facts-and-arguments/whats-the-best-way-to-find-fans-of-alice-munro-start-quoting-herwork/article36727824/|url-status=live}}</ref> Another feature is an omniscient narrator. Many compare her small-town settings to those of writers from the [[Southern United States|rural American South]]. Her characters often confront deep-rooted customs and traditions. Much of her work exemplifies the [[Southern Ontario Gothic]] literary subgenre.<ref>Susanne Becker, ''Gothic Forms of Feminine Fictions''. [[Manchester University Press]], 1999.</ref>

A frequent theme of her work, especially her early stories, is the girl coming of age and coming to terms with her family and small hometown.<ref name=NYTobit/> In work such as ''[[Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage]]'' (2001) and ''[[Runaway (book)|Runaway]]'' (2004), she shifted her focus to the travails of middle-aged women alone, and the elderly.<ref name=Wapo/> Munro's stories explore human complexities in an uncomplicated prose style.<ref>{{cite web | last = Meyer | first = Michael | url = http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/literature/bedlit/authors_depth/munro.htm | title = Alice Munro | publisher = Meyer Literature | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20071212202336/http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/literature/bedlit/authors_depth/munro.htm | archive-date = 12 December 2007 | url-status = deviated}}</ref> Her 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 and effortlessly evoke life.<ref>{{cite journal | last = Hoy | first = Helen | title = Dull, Simple, Amazing and Unfathomable: Paradox and Double Vision In Alice Munro's Fiction | journal = [[Studies in Canadian Literature]] | volume = 5 | issue = 1 | year = 1980 | publisher = University of New Brunswick | url = http://www.lib.unb.ca/Texts/SCL/bin/get.cgi?directory=vol5_1/&filename=hoy.htm | access-date = 20 June 2007 | url-status = live | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070914081209/http://www.lib.unb.ca/Texts/SCL/bin/get.cgi?directory=vol5_1/&filename=hoy.htm | archive-date = 14 September 2007}}</ref> Robert Thacker wrote:

{{blockquote|Munro's writing creates&nbsp;... 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&nbsp;... "[[realism (literature)|realism]]"—but rather the feeling of being itself&nbsp;... of just being a human being.<ref>{{cite journal
 |last1        = Thacker
 |first1       = Robert
 |last2        = MacKendrick
 |first2       = Louis K.
 |title        = Review of Some other reality: Alice Munro's Something I've been Meaning to Tell You
 |journal      = [[Journal of Canadian Studies]]
 |issue        = Summer 1998
 |publisher    = [[Trent University]]
 |location     = [[Peterborough, Ontario]]
 |url          = http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3683/is_199807/ai_n8800214
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 |archive-date = 17 June 2008
 |year         = 1998
 |issn         = 1911-0251
}}</ref>}}

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 Magazine]]'', answered: "Who cares? In most Munro stories there is as much as in many novels."<ref>{{cite journal
 |last         = Keegan
 |first        = Alex
 |title        = Munro: The Short Answer
 |journal      = [[Eclectica Magazine]]
 |volume       = 2
 |issue        = 5
 |date         = August–September 1998
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|url-status   = live
}}</ref>

The first [[PhD thesis]] on Munro's work was published in 1972.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Struthers|first=J. R. (Tim)|year=1981|title=Some Highly Subversive Activities: A Brief Polemic and a Checklist of Works on Alice Munro|url=https://journals.lib.unb.ca/index.php/SCL/article/view/7959|volume=6|number=1|journal=[[Studies in Canadian Literature]]|language=en|issn=1718-7850|accessdate=5 March 2023|archivedate=5 March 2023|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20230305095610/https://journals.lib.unb.ca/index.php/SCL/article/view/7959|url-status=live}}</ref> The first book-length volume collecting the papers presented at the [[University of Waterloo]]'s first conference on her work, ''The Art of Alice Munro: Saying the Unsayable'', was published in 1984.<ref name=jsse55>{{Cite journal|last=Ventura|first=Héliane|date=Autumn 2010|title=Introduction to Special issue: The Short Stories of Alice Munro|url=https://journals.openedition.org/jsse/1057|journal=Journal of the Short Story in English. Les Cahiers de la nouvelle|language=en|issue=55|access-date=5 March 2023|archive-date=15 May 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240515211330/https://journals.openedition.org/jsse/1057|url-status=live}}</ref> In 2003/2004, the journal ''Open Letter. The Canadian Quarterly Review of writing and sources'' published 14 contributions on Munro's work. In 2010, the ''Journal of the Short Story in English (JSSE)/Les cahiers de la nouvelle'' dedicated a special issue to Munro, and in 2012, an issue of the journal ''Narrative'' focused on a single story by Munro, "Passion" (2004), with an introduction, summary of the story, and five analytical essays.<ref name=jsse55 />

===Creating new versions===

Munro published 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 version about 30 years apart, "Home" (1974/2006/2014) and "Wood" (1980/2009). {{Crossreference|(For details, see {{slink|List of short stories by Alice Munro|Short stories by title (sortable)}}.)}}

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 Munro wrote eight versions of her story "Powers", for example.<ref>[http://www.vqronline.org/articles/2006/summer/close-munro/ An Appreciation of Alice Munro] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131022130241/http://www.vqronline.org/articles/2006/summer/close-munro/ |date=22 October 2013 }}, by Ann Close and Lisa Dickler Awano, Compiler and Editor. In: ''The Virginia Quarterly Review''. VQR Symposium on Alice Munro. Summer 2006, pp. 102–105.</ref>

Awano writes that "Wood" is a good example of how Munro, "a tireless self-editor",<ref name ="Awano 2012">Lisa Dickler Awano, [http://www.newhavenreview.com/index.php/2012/05/kindling-the-creative-fire-alice-munros-two-versions-of-wood/ Kindling The Creative Fire: Alice Munro's Two Versions of "Wood"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121029151543/http://www.newhavenreview.com/index.php/2012/05/kindling-the-creative-fire-alice-munros-two-versions-of-wood/ |date=29 October 2012 }}, ''[[New Haven Review]]'', 30 May 2012.</ref> rewrites and revises a story, in this case returning to it for a second publication nearly 30 years later, revising characterisations, 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-aged in 1980, and older in 2009. Awano perceives a heightened lyricism brought about not least by the poetic precision of Munro's revision.<ref name ="Awano 2012" /> The 2009 version has eight sections to the 1980 version's three, and a new ending. Awano writes that Munro literally "refinishes" the first take on the story with an ambiguity characteristic of her endings, and reimagines her stories throughout her work in various ways.<ref name ="Awano 2012" />

==Personal life==

Munro married James Munro in 1951.<ref name=NYTobit/> Their daughters Sheila, Catherine, and Jenny were born in 1953, 1955, and 1957, respectively; Catherine died the day of her birth due to a kidney dysfunction.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/2013/munro-bio.html|title=Alice Munro – Biographical|last=Thacker|first=Robert|year=2014|publisher=Nobel Foundation|access-date=5 August 2018|archivedate=6 August 2018|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20180806025410/https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/2013/munro-bio.html|url-status=live}}</ref> In September 1966, their youngest daughter, Andrea Robin, was born.<ref name=NYTobit/>

In 1963, the Munros moved to [[Victoria, British Columbia|Victoria]], where they opened [[Munro's Books]], a popular bookstore that remains in business.<ref name=NYTobit/> Alice and James Munro divorced in 1972.<ref name=NYTobit/>

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 during her university days.<ref name="Westernnews"/> 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.<ref>{{cite news | url=http://www.yourlifemoments.ca/sitepages/obituary.asp?oId=700628 | title=Gerald Fremlin (obituary) | newspaper=Clinton News-Record | date=April 2013 | access-date=1 July 2013 | archivedate=12 October 2013 | archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20131012222056/http://www.yourlifemoments.ca/sitepages/obituary.asp?oId=700628 | url-status=live }}</ref> Munro and Fremlin also owned a home in [[Comox, British Columbia]].<ref name=HappyShadesVintage1998/> 

In 2009, Munro revealed that she had received treatment for cancer and for a heart condition requiring [[coronary artery]] [[bypass surgery]].<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/alice-munro-reveals-cancer-fight-1.854024 | title=Alice Munro reveals cancer fight | agency=The Canadian Press | publisher=[[CBC News]] | date=22 October 2009 | author-link=The Canadian Press | archive-date=23 October 2009 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091023090220/http://www.cbc.ca/arts/books/story/2009/10/22/alice-munro-cancer.html | url-status=live }}</ref>

In 2002, Sheila Munro published a childhood memoir, ''Lives of Mothers and Daughters: Growing Up with Alice Munro''.<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/16/books/go-ask-alice.html | title=Go Ask Alice | first=Kathryn | last=Harrison | date=16 June 2002 | newspaper=The New York Times | access-date=15 July 2016 | archivedate=19 August 2016 | archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160819144711/http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/16/books/go-ask-alice.html | url-status=live }}</ref> 

Munro died at her home in [[Port Hope, Ontario]], on 13 May 2024, at age 92. She had [[dementia]] for at least 12 years.<ref>{{Cite news |date=14 May 2024 |title=Alice Munro, Canadian author who won Nobel Prize for Literature, dies at 92 |url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-alice-munro-death-author/ |access-date=14 May 2024 |work=The Globe and Mail |language=en-CA |archive-date=15 May 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240515211345/https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-alice-munro-death-author/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

===Child sexual abuse by second husband===

On 7 July 2024, shortly after Munro's death, her youngest daughter, Andrea Skinner, revealed in an essay in the ''[[Toronto Star]]'' that her stepfather, Gerald Fremlin, had [[child sexual abuse|sexually abused her]] starting in 1976 when she was nine years old and ending when she became a teenager. She told Munro about the abuse in 1992. After learning of the abuse, Munro separated from Fremlin for a few months, but ultimately went back to him.<ref name=":1">{{cite web |last1=Dundas |first1=Deborah |last2=Powell |first2=Betsy |date=7 July 2024 |title=In the home of Alice Munro, a dark secret lurked. Now, her children want the world to know |url=https://www.thestar.com/news/in-the-home-of-alice-munro-a-dark-secret-lurked-now-her-children-want-the/article_69a63202-34cd-11ef-83f4-9b4275c26d84.html |archive-url=https://archive.today/20240708034709/https://www.thestar.com/news/in-the-home-of-alice-munro-a-dark-secret-lurked-now-her-children-want-the/article_69a63202-34cd-11ef-83f4-9b4275c26d84.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=8 July 2024 |access-date=7 July 2024 |newspaper=[[Toronto Star]]}}</ref><ref name=":0" /><ref name="whatMunroKnew"/> According to Skinner, Munro said that she had been "told too late", loved her husband too much, and wanted to stay with him.<ref name=":1" /><ref name=":0" /> In 2002, Skinner cut off contact with Munro after Munro objected to Skinner not wanting Fremlin near her own children.<ref name="whatMunroKnew">{{cite web |last1=Harvey |first1=Giles |title=What Alice Munro Knew |date=8 December 2024 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/08/magazine/alice-munro-andrea-skinner-abuse.html |archive-url=https://archive.today/20241208160618/https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/08/magazine/alice-munro-andrea-skinner-abuse.html#selection-4789.504-4789.680 |archive-date=8 December 2024 |website=[[The New York Times]] |access-date=6 January 2024}}</ref><ref name="munrosPassiveVoice"/> In 2005, Fremlin pleaded guilty to sexual assault and received a suspended sentence and two years' probation.<ref name="munrosPassiveVoice"/><ref name=":0">{{cite web |last1=Skinner |first1=Andrea Robin |title=My stepfather sexually abused me when I was a child. My mother, Alice Munro, chose to stay with him |date=7 July 2024 |url=https://www.thestar.com/opinion/contributors/my-stepfather-sexually-abused-me-when-i-was-a-child-my-mother-alice-munro-chose/article_8415ba7c-3ae0-11ef-83f5-2369a808ea37.html |archive-url=https://archive.today/20240707111321/https://www.thestar.com/opinion/contributors/my-stepfather-sexually-abused-me-when-i-was-a-child-my-mother-alice-munro-chose/article_8415ba7c-3ae0-11ef-83f5-2369a808ea37.html |archive-date=7 July 2024 |website=[[Toronto Star]] |access-date=7 July 2024}}</ref> Munro's other family members continued regular contact with Munro and Fremlin, while Skinner became estranged from all of them until after Munro's death.<ref name="whatMunroKnew"/><ref name="munrosPassiveVoice">{{cite magazine |last1=Aviv |first1=Rachel |title=Alice Munro's Passive Voice |date=23 Dec 2024 |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/12/30/alice-munros-passive-voice |magazine=[[The New Yorker]] |access-date=6 January 2024}}</ref>

For ''[[The New York Times]]'', Giles Harvey wrote: "Munro's stories—particularly those from the years after she learned of the abuse—are full of violated children, negligent mothers and marriages founded on secrets and lies... Munro seems to have spent much of her career absorbed by the same questions that readers have asked since Andrea published her essay. Why did she not protect her daughter? What led her to take Fremlin back? How could a writer who was capable of such power on the page prove so feeble in real life?"<ref name="whatMunroKnew"/> Articles in ''[[The New Yorker]]'' and ''[[The New Republic]]'' note that many of Munro's stories written afterward relate to the topic, such as "Vandals", in which a woman vandalizes the house of a couple where the man molested her as a child, and "Dimension", in which a woman defends her desire to keep making jail visits to the husband who killed their three children.<ref name="munrosPassiveVoice"/><ref name="tnr">{{cite magazine |last1=Hall |first1=Linda |title=What Alice Munro Knew |url=https://newrepublic.com/article/183947/alice-munro-knew-andrea-robin-skinner-fiction-essay |magazine=[[The New Republic]] |date=23 July 2024 |access-date=6 January 2024}}</ref>

Munro's biographer Robert Thacker was aware of the allegations, but did not mention them in his 2005 biography of her, though Skinner contacted him with her story shortly before it was published.<ref name="literaryWorldGrapples">{{cite web |last1=Ewe|first1=Koh |date=9 July 2024 |title=Literary World Grapples With Alice Munro's Legacy After Daughter's Revelation of Abuse |url=https://time.com/6995658/alice-munro-legacy-daughter-andrea-skinner-abuse-fremlin-silence-complicity/ |access-date=9 July 2024 |newspaper=[[Time (magazine)|Time]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Weaver|first1=Jackson |date=26 July 2024 |title=Alice Munro's biography excluded husband's abuse of her daughter. How did that happen? |url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/alice-munro-biographies-1.7268296|access-date=21 August 2024 |website=[[CBC News]]}}</ref><ref name="washpost">{{cite news |last1=Nguyen|first1=Sophia |date=9 July 2024 |title='I knew this day was going to come': Alice Munro associates say they knew of abuse |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/books/2024/07/09/alice-munro-colleagues-abuse/|access-date=21 August 2024 |newspaper=[[Washington Post]]}}</ref> Others had worked with Munro and were aware of Skinner’s experience, but did not make it public. This included [[Douglas Gibson]], Munro's editor and publisher.<ref name="munrosPassiveVoice"/><ref name="washpost"/> Lawyer Robert Morris, who prosecuted Fremlin in his 2005 conviction, theorized that Fremlin's abuse went unreported for so long because "everyone was protecting the mother".<ref>{{cite web |last1=Puzic |first1=Sonja |date=17 July 2024 |title=Lawyer who prosecuted Alice Munro's husband unsurprised case stayed hidden for years |url=https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/article/lawyer-who-prosecuted-alice-munros-husband-unsurprised-case-stayed-hidden-for-years/|access-date=6 January 2025 |website=[[CTV News]]}}</ref>

==Legacy==

Munro's work has been described as having revolutionized the short story, especially in its tendency to move forward and backward in time, and with integrated [[short story cycle]]s, in which she displayed "inarguable virtuosity".<ref>{{cite book | last = Lynch | first = Gerald | year = 2001 | title = The One and the Many: English-Canadian Short Story Cycles | url = https://archive.org/details/onemanyenglishca0000lync | url-access = registration | publisher = University of Toronto Press | location = Toronto | isbn = 0-8020-3511-6 | doi = 10.3138/9781442681941 | page = [https://archive.org/details/onemanyenglishca0000lync/page/15 xiv] }}</ref> Her stories have been said to "embed more than announce, reveal more than parade".<ref>{{cite encyclopedia|url=https://thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/literature-in-english|title=Literature in English|author=W. H. New|encyclopedia=[[The Canadian Encyclopedia]]|access-date=18 August 2019|author-link=W. H. New|archivedate=18 August 2019|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20190818173516/https://thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/literature-in-english|url-status=live}}</ref> Munro was seen as a pioneer in short story telling, with the [[Swedish Academy]] calling her a "master of the contemporary short story" who could "accommodate the entire epic complexity of the novel in just a few short pages".<ref name=APobit>{{cite web|url=https://apnews.com/article/alice-munro-dies-f2311484b33c450ab16331aef6548631|title=Alice Munro, Nobel literature winner revered as short story master, dead at 92|work=Associated Press News|accessdate=14 May 2024|date=14 May 2024|archivedate=14 May 2024|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20240514170842/https://apnews.com/article/alice-munro-dies-f2311484b33c450ab16331aef6548631|url-status=live}}</ref> In her ''[[New York Times]]'' obituary, Munro's works were credited for "attracting a new generation of readers" and she was called a "master of the short story".<ref name=NYTobit/> Her work is often compared with that of the most critically acclaimed short story writers.<ref>{{cite news | last=Merkin | first=Daphne | date=24 October 2004 | url=https://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/24/magazine/24MUNRO.html | title=Northern Exposures | work=The New York Times Magazine | access-date=25 February 2008 | archivedate=10 March 2013 | archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130310104204/http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/24/magazine/24MUNRO.html? | url-status=live }}</ref> 

Her works and career have been ranked alongside other well-established short story writers such as [[Anton Chekhov]] and [[John Cheever]].<ref name=APobit/> As in Chekhov, Garan Holcombe writes: "All is based on the epiphanic moment, the sudden enlightenment, the concise, subtle, revelatory detail." Her 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."<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |last=Holcombe |first=Garan |title=Alice Munro |encyclopedia=Contemporary Writers |publisher=British Arts Council |location=London |year=2005 |url=http://www.contemporarywriters.com/authors/?p=auth03D29L044112635689 |access-date=14 May 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070930225053/http://www.contemporarywriters.com/authors/?p=auth03D29L044112635689 |archive-date=30 September 2007 |url-status=live}}</ref>

Munro's work has been considered a "national treasure" of Canada as it focuses largely on life in rural Canada from a woman's perspective.<ref name=BBCobit>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-69011945|title=Canadian writer and Nobel prize winner Alice Munro dies at 92|work=[[BBC News]]|date=14 May 2024|access-date=14 May 2024|archive-date=15 May 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240515211550/https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-69011945|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>
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Canadian novelist [[Margaret Atwood]] called Munro a "pioneer for women, and for Canadians".<ref name=APobit/> The [[Associated Press]] said that Munro created "stories set around Canada that appealed to readers far away."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/alice-munro-nobel-literature-winner-revered-short-story-master-dies-92-rcna152235|title=Alice Munro, Nobel literature winner revered as short story master, dies at 92|publisher=[[NBC News]]|date=14 May 2024|access-date=14 May 2024|archive-date=15 May 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240515211452/https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/alice-munro-nobel-literature-winner-revered-short-story-master-dies-92-rcna152235|url-status=live}}</ref>

[[Sherry Linkon]], professor at [[Georgetown University]], said that Munro's works "helped remodel and revitalize the short-story form".<ref name=Wapo>{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2024/05/14/alice-munro-author-canada-dead/|title=Alice Munro, Nobel Prize-winning short-story 'master,' dies at 92|newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]|date=14 May 2024|access-date=14 May 2024|archive-date=15 May 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240515211341/https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2024/05/14/alice-munro-author-canada-dead/|url-status=live}}</ref> The complexity of the themes explored in her work, such as womanhood, death, relationships, aging, and themes associated with the [[counterculture of the 1960s]], were seen as groundbreaking.<ref name=NYTobit/><ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://time.com/6977937/alice-munro-dies/|title=Alice Munro, Who Shaped the Modern Short Story, Dies at 92|date=14 May 2024 |magazine=Time|accessdate=14 May 2024|archive-date=15 May 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240515211555/https://time.com/6977937/alice-munro-dies/|url-status=live}}</ref>

Upon winning the [[Man Booker International Prize]], her works were described by judges of the committee as bringing "as much depth, wisdom and precision to every story as most novelists bring to a lifetime of novels".<ref name=BBCobit/>

The news of the sexual abuse of Munro's daughter caused a reassessment of both Munro's life and her literary legacy.<ref>{{cite magazine |last1=Hall |first1=Linda |title=What Alice Munro Knew |url=https://newrepublic.com/article/183947/alice-munro-knew-andrea-robin-skinner-fiction-essay |magazine=The New Republic |access-date=28 December 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Coletta |first1=Amanda |title=After abuse revelations, professors grapple with how to teach Munro |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/07/12/alice-munro-abuse-canada-reckoning/ |access-date=14 July 2024 |newspaper=The Washington Post |date=12 July 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Italie |first1=Hillel |title=Educators wonder how to teach the writings of Alice Munro in wake of daughter's revelations |url=https://apnews.com/article/alice-munro-educators-daughter-revelations-abuse-2711d37fb6bf2e82dbdeba89d3c44548 |access-date=17 July 2024 |work=AP News |date=16 July 2024 |language=en}}</ref> Novelist [[Rebecca Makkai]] wrote, "the revelations don't just defile the artist, but the art itself".<ref>{{cite web |last1=Makkai |first1=Rebecca |title=Commentary: Alice Munro was no better than the miserable women she wrote about |url=https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2024-07-12/alice-munro-andrea-skinner-sexual-abuse-commentary |website=Los Angeles Times |access-date=14 July 2024 |date=12 July 2024}}</ref> Writer [[Brandon Taylor (writer)|Brandon Taylor]] said, "I think we cannot talk about Munro's art without also talking about this aspect of her life".<ref>{{cite web |last1=Taylor |first1=Brandon |title=what i'm doing about alice munro |url=https://blgtylr.substack.com/p/what-im-doing-about-alice-munro |website=[[Substack]] |access-date=21 August 2024 |date=10 July 2024}}</ref>

==Selected awards and honours==

* '''1968''': [[Governor General's Literary Award]] for English language fiction for ''[[Dance of the Happy Shades]]''<ref>{{Cite web |title=Fiction – 1968 |url=http://ggawards.ca/fiction-1968/ |url-status=live |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20240126125456/http://ggawards.ca/fiction-1968/ |archivedate=26 January 2024 |access-date=14 May 2024 |work=Governor General Awards – Celebrating Canada's Oldest Literary Award |publisher=[[King's Printer for Canada]] |location=Ottawa}}</ref>
* '''1971''': Canadian Booksellers Award for ''Lives of Girls and Women''<ref>{{Cite web |title=George Woodcock Life Time Achievement Awards Alice Munro 2005 « BC Book Awards |url=https://bcbookawards.ca/george-woodcock/winners/alice-munro#:~:text=Alice%20Munro's%20first%20short%20story,as%20the%20heroine%20Del%20Jordan. |url-status=live |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20240514165559/https://bcbookawards.ca/george-woodcock/winners/alice-munro#:~:text=Alice%20Munro's%20first%20short%20story,as%20the%20heroine%20Del%20Jordan. |archivedate=14 May 2024 |access-date=14 May 2024 |website=bcbookawards.ca}}</ref>
* '''1977:''' Canada-Australia Literary Prize, inaugural prize<ref>{{Cite web |title=Alice Munro – Literature |url=https://literature.britishcouncil.org/writer/alice-munro |url-status=live |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20221120041303/https://literature.britishcouncil.org/writer/alice-munro |archivedate=20 November 2022 |access-date=14 May 2024 |website=literature.britishcouncil.org}}</ref>
* '''1978''': [[Governor General's Literary Award]] for English language fiction for ''[[Who Do You Think You Are? (book)|Who Do You Think You Are?]]''<ref>{{Cite web |title=Fiction – 1978 |url=http://ggawards.ca/fiction-1978/ |url-status=live |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20240131133457/http://ggawards.ca/fiction-1978/ |archivedate=31 January 2024 |access-date=14 May 2024 |work=Governor General Awards – Celebrating Canada's Oldest Literary Award |publisher=[[King's Printer for Canada]] |location=Ottawa}}</ref>
* '''1980''': [[Booker Prize for Fiction]] (shortlisted) for ''[[Who Do You Think You Are? (book)|Who Do You Think You Are?]]'' (as ''The Beggar Maid'')<ref>{{cite web |year=1980 |title=The Beggar Maid {{!}} The Booker Prizes |url=https://thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-library/books/the-beggar-maid |url-status=live |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20231201035649/https://thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-library/books/the-beggar-maid |archivedate=1 December 2023 |access-date=14 May 2024 |work=[[The Booker Prize]] |publisher=Booker Prize Foundation |location=London}}</ref>
* '''1982''': Nominated for a [[Governor General's Literary Award]] for English language fiction for ''[[The Moons of Jupiter]]''<ref>{{Cite web |title=Fiction – 1986 |url=http://ggawards.ca/fiction-1986/ |url-status=live |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20240204173832/http://ggawards.ca/fiction-1986/ |archivedate=4 February 2024 |access-date=14 May 2024 |work=Governor General Awards – Celebrating Canada's Oldest Literary Award |publisher=[[King's Printer for Canada]] |location=Ottawa}}</ref>
* '''1986''': [[Governor General's Literary Award]] for English language fiction for ''[[The Progress of Love]]''<ref>{{Cite web |title=Fiction – 1986 |url=http://ggawards.ca/fiction-1986/ |url-status=live |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20240204173832/http://ggawards.ca/fiction-1986/ |archivedate=4 February 2024 |access-date=14 May 2024 |work=Governor General Awards – Celebrating Canada's Oldest Literary Award |publisher=[[King's Printer for Canada]] |location=Ottawa}}</ref>
* '''1986''': [[Writers' Trust of Canada]]'s [[Marian Engel Award]] for her body of work<ref>{{cite web |title=Past Writers' Trust Engel/Findley Award Winners |url=http://www.writerstrust.com/Awards/Writers--Trust-Notable-Author-Award/Prize-History.aspx |url-status=live |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140408224546/http://www.writerstrust.com/Awards/Writers--Trust-Notable-Author-Award/Prize-History.aspx |archivedate=8 April 2014 |access-date=7 April 2014}}</ref>
* '''1990''': [[Trillium Book Award]] for ''[[Friend of My Youth]]''<ref name=":2">{{cite web |title=Trillium Book Award Winners |url=http://www.omdc.on.ca/book/trillium_book_award/trillium_book_award_winners.htm |url-status=deviated |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131029005007/http://www.omdc.on.ca/Book/Trillium_Book_Award/Trillium_Book_Award_Winners.htm |archive-date=29 October 2013 |access-date=14 May 2024 |work=Ontario Creates |publisher=Ontario Media Development Corporation |location=Toronto}}</ref>
* '''1991''': [[Commonwealth Writers Prize]] for Canada and the Caribbean Region shortlisted for ''[[Friend of My Youth]]''{{fact|date=October 2025}}
* '''1994''': [[1994 Governor General's Awards|Governor General's Award]] for ''[[Open Secrets (short story collection)|Open Secrets]]''<ref>Simons, Paula (6 November 1994). "Munro pulls no punches", ''[[Edmonton Journal]]'', p. C4.</ref>
* '''1994:''' [[Trillium Book Award, English]] nomination for ''[[Open Secrets (short story collection)|Open Secrets]]''
* '''1994''': [[WH Smith Literary Award]] for ''[[Open Secrets (short story collection)|Open Secrets]]''<ref>{{Cite web |title=WH Smith Literary Award {{!}} Awards and Honors {{!}} LibraryThing |url=https://www.librarything.com/award/607/WH-Smith-Literary-Award |url-status=live |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20240504233716/https://www.librarything.com/award/607/WH-Smith-Literary-Award |archivedate=4 May 2024 |access-date=14 May 2024 |website=LibraryThing.com |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Munro Wins Rea Award |url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/print/20010402/20104-munro-wins-rea-award.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240515212053/https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/print/20010402/20104-munro-wins-rea-award.html |archive-date=15 May 2024 |access-date=14 May 2024 |website=Publishers Weekly |language=en}}</ref>
* '''1995''': [[Lannan Literary Award for Fiction]]<ref>{{Cite web |title=Prizes, Awards & Fellowships |url=https://lannan.org/programs/awards |url-status=live |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20240426175203/https://lannan.org/programs/awards |archivedate=26 April 2024 |access-date=14 May 2024 |website=Lannan Foundation |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Alice Munro |url=https://lannan.org/bios/alice-munro |url-status=live |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20231201094335/https://lannan.org/bios/alice-munro |archivedate=1 December 2023 |access-date=14 May 2024 |website=Lannan Foundation |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=22 January 2024 |title=10 WRITERS RECEIVE $50,000 LANNAN LITERARY AWARDS |url=https://www.deseret.com/1995/10/8/19197555/10-writers-receive-50-000-lannan-literary-awards/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240515212035/https://www.deseret.com/1995/10/8/19197555/10-writers-receive-50-000-lannan-literary-awards/ |archive-date=15 May 2024 |access-date=14 May 2024 |website=Deseret News |language=en}}</ref>
* '''1996''': [[Trillium Book Award, English]] nomination for ''Selected Stories''
* '''1997''': [[PEN/Malamud Award]]<ref>{{Cite web |title=The PEN/Malamud Award {{!}} The PEN/Faulkner Foundation |url=https://www.penfaulkner.org/our-awards/the-pen-malamud-award/ |url-status=live |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20240116163335/https://www.penfaulkner.org/our-awards/the-pen-malamud-award/ |archivedate=16 January 2024 |access-date=14 May 2024 |website=penfaulkner.org}}</ref>
* '''1998''': [[Giller Prize]] nomination for ''[[The Love of a Good Woman]]''<ref>(10 March 1999). "Munro's The Love Of A Good Woman first non-U.S. winner of critics' prize", ''[[The Hamilton Spectator]]'', p. F4.</ref>
* '''1998''': [[National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction]] for ''[[The Love of a Good Woman]]''<ref>{{Cite web |title=National Book Critics Circle Award Winners |url=https://www.bookcritics.org/awards/ |url-status=live |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20240415115523/https://www.bookcritics.org/awards/ |archivedate=15 April 2024 |access-date=14 May 2024 |website=National Book Critics Circle |language=en}}</ref>
* '''1998:''' [[Trillium Book Award, English]] for ''[[The Love of a Good Woman]]<ref name=":2" />''
* '''1999''': [[Libris Award]] for Author of the Year<ref name=":3">{{cite web |title=CBA Libris Award Winners, 1998–2002 |url=http://www.cbabook.org/files/Libris-1998-2002-Winners.pdf |url-status=live |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120328131728/http://www.cbabook.org/files/Libris-1998-2002-Winners.pdf |archivedate=28 March 2012 |accessdate=6 April 2012 |publisher=CBA}}</ref>
* '''1999''': [[Libris Award]] for Fiction Book of the Year for ''[[The Love of a Good Woman]]''<ref name=":3" />
* '''2001''': [[Rea Award for the Short Story]]<ref>{{Cite web |date=28 March 2001 |title=Canadian author wins Rea Award |url=https://www.chron.com/culture/main/article/canadian-author-wins-rea-award-2031062.php |access-date=14 May 2024 |website=Houston Chronicle}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=The Rea Award for the Short Story |url=https://americanwritersmuseum.org/award/the-rea-award-for-the-short-story/ |url-status=live |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20231001020753/https://americanwritersmuseum.org/award/the-rea-award-for-the-short-story/ |archivedate=1 October 2023 |access-date=14 May 2024 |website=The American Writers Museum |language=en-US}}</ref>
* '''2001''': [[Trillium Book Award, English]] nomination for ''[[Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage]]''
* '''2002''': [[Commonwealth Writers Prize]] for Canada and the Caribbean Region shortlisted for ''[[Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage]]''
* '''2002''': [[Giller Prize]] for ''[[Runaway (book)|Runaway]]''<ref>{{Cite news |title=Giller Prize Winners |url=https://scotiabankgillerprize.ca/winners/ |url-status=live |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20240415120431/https://scotiabankgillerprize.ca/winners/ |archivedate=15 April 2024 |access-date=14 May 2024 |website=Scotiabank Giller Prize}}</ref>
* '''2004''': [[Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize]] for ''[[Runaway (book)|Runaway]]''<ref>{{cite web |title=Past Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize Winners |url=http://www.writerstrust.com/Awards/Rogers-Writers--Trust-Fiction-Prize/PrizeHistoryandGuidelines/Prize-History.aspx |url-status=deviated |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180901080515/https://writerstrust.com/Awards/Rogers-Writers--Trust-Fiction-Prize/PrizeHistoryandGuidelines/Prize-History.aspx |archive-date=1 September 2018}}</ref>
* '''2004''': [[Trillium Book Award, English]] nomination for ''[[Runaway (book)|Runaway]]''
* '''2004''': [[Giller Prize]] for ''[[The View from Castle Rock]]''<ref>{{Cite news |title=Giller Prize Winners |url=https://scotiabankgillerprize.ca/winners/ |url-status=live |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20240415120431/https://scotiabankgillerprize.ca/winners/ |archivedate=15 April 2024 |access-date=14 May 2024 |website=Scotiabank Giller Prize}}</ref>
* '''2005''': [[Commonwealth Writers Prize]] for Canada and the Caribbean Region shortlisted for ''[[Runaway (book)|Runaway]]''
* '''2006''': [[Edward MacDowell Medal]] for outstanding contribution to the arts by the [[MacDowell Colony]]<ref>{{cite web |year=2015 |title=Medal Day History |url=http://www.macdowellcolony.org/events-MedalDay-History.html |url-status=deviated |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160810184241/http://www.macdowellcolony.org/events-MedalDay-History.html |archive-date=10 August 2016 |access-date=14 May 2024 |work=MacDowell Freedom Center |publisher=[[The MacDowell Colony]] |location=Peterborough, New Hampshire}}</ref>
* '''2007''': [[Commonwealth Writers Prize]] for Canada and the Caribbean Region shortlisted for ''[[The View from Castle Rock]]''
* '''2009''': [[Man Booker International Prize]]<ref>The Booker Prize Foundation [http://www.themanbookerprize.com/news/stories/1226 "Alice Munro wins 2009 Man Booker International Prize."] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090702143116/http://www.themanbookerprize.com/news/stories/1226|date=2 July 2009}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Flood |first1=Alison |date=27 May 2009 |title=Alice Munro wins Man Booker International prize |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2009/may/27/alice-munro-man-booker-international-prize |url-status=live |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20210308102110/https://www.theguardian.com/books/2009/may/27/alice-munro-man-booker-international-prize |archivedate=8 March 2021 |access-date=15 May 2024 |work=[[The Guardian]]}}</ref>
* '''2009''': [[Trillium Book Award, English]] nomination for ''[[Too Much Happiness]]''<ref>{{Cite web |last=Shearman |first=Linda |date=2013-10-10 |title=Wingham-native Alice Munro 'delighted' to win Nobel Prize for literature |url=https://www.ctvnews.ca/london/wingham-native-alice-munro-delighted-to-win-nobel-prize-for-literature-1.1492234?cache=%2F5-things-to-know-for-wednesday-july-31-2019-1.4530803%2F7.444012 |access-date=2024-08-08 |website=London |language=en}}</ref>
* '''2013''': [[Trillium Book Award, English]] for ''Dear Life<ref name=":2" />''
* '''2013''': [[Nobel Prize in Literature]]<ref>{{Cite web |title=Alice Munro |url=https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/2013/munro/facts/ |url-status=live |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20240515214916/https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/2013/munro/facts/ |archivedate=15 May 2024 |access-date=14 May 2024 |website=Nobel Prize |language=en}}</ref><ref name="nobelprize.org" />
Additionally, she was awarded the [[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)<ref>{{cite web |title=The O. Henry Prize Past Winners |url=https://www.randomhouse.com/anchor/ohenry/winners/past.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170905135754/https://www.randomhouse.com/anchor/ohenry/winners/past.html |archive-date=5 September 2017 |access-date=30 September 2017 |website=[[Random House]]}}</ref> 

===Honours===

* 1993: [[Royal Society of Canada]]'s [[Lorne Pierce Medal]]<ref>{{Cite web |date=21 October 2018 |title=Past Award Winners |url=https://rsc-src.ca/en/awards-excellence/past-award-winners |access-date=14 May 2024 |website=The Royal Society of Canada |language=en |archivedate=8 May 2019 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20190508203935/https://rsc-src.ca/en/awards-excellence/past-award-winners |url-status=live }}</ref>
* 1997: Foreign Honorary Member of the [[American Academy of Arts and Letters]]<ref>{{cite web |title=Ms. Alice Munro: International Honorary Member |url=https://www.amacad.org/person/alice-munro |publisher=American Academy of Arts and Letters |access-date=14 May 2024 |date=May 2024}}</ref>
* 2002: Elected [[Royal Society of Literature|Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature]]<ref>{{Cite web |date=2023-09-01 |title=Munro, Alice |url=https://rsliterature.org/fellows/alice-munro/,%20https://rsliterature.org/fellows/alice-munro/ |access-date=2025-07-02 |website=Royal Society of Literature |language=en-GB}}</ref>
* 2005: Medal of Honor for Literature from the U.S. [[National Arts Club]]<ref>{{Cite web |title=Literature – The National Arts Club |url=https://www.nationalartsclub.org/literature |access-date=14 May 2024 |website=nationalartsclub.org |archivedate=24 February 2024 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20240224103241/https://www.nationalartsclub.org/literature |url-status=live }}</ref>
* 2010: Government of France – Knight of the [[Order of Arts and Letters]]<ref>{{cite web
 |url          = http://www.gazette.gc.ca/rp-pr/p1/2010/2010-06-26/html/gh-rg-eng.html
 |title        = Awards to Canadians
 |work         = Canadian Gazette
 |publisher    = [[King's Printer for Canada]]
 |date         = 26 June 2010
|access-date  = 14 May 2024
|url-status   = live
 |archive-url  = https://web.archive.org/web/20130523024828/http://www.gazette.gc.ca/rp-pr/p1/2010/2010-06-26/html/gh-rg-eng.html
 |archive-date = 23 May 2013
}}</ref>
* 2014: Silver coin released by the [[Royal Canadian Mint]] in honour of Munro's Nobel Prize win<ref>
{{cite news
 | url           = https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/mint-releases-silver-coin-to-honour-alice-munros-nobel-win/article17638461/
 | title         = Mint releases silver coin to honour Alice Munro's Nobel win
 | date          = 24 March 2014
| access-date   = 7 April 2014
| work          = [[The Globe and Mail]]
 | archivedate   = 30 March 2014
| archiveurl    = https://web.archive.org/web/20140330051815/http://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/mint-releases-silver-coin-to-honour-alice-munros-nobel-win/article17638461/
 | url-status    = live
}}</ref>
*2015: Postage stamp released by [[Canada Post]] in honour of Munro's Nobel Prize win<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.canadapost.ca/shop/alice-munro/p-413986111.jsf?execution=e1s1/|title=Alice Munro|date=10 July 2015|access-date=27 July 2015 |work=Canada Post}}</ref>

==Works==

{{Main|List of short stories by Alice Munro}}

===Original short story collections===

* ''[[Dance of the Happy Shades]]'' (1968)<ref>{{cite web |title=Vancouver Book Fair – Fair Past Exhibitors |url=http://www.vancouverbookfair.com/gallery_details.php?Gallery_ID=41 |url-status=deviated |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131213092001/http://www.vancouverbookfair.com/gallery_details.php?Gallery_ID=41 |archive-date=13 December 2013 |access-date=10 December 2013}}</ref>
* ''[[Lives of Girls and Women]]'' (1971)<ref name="besner">Besner, Neil K., "Introducing Alice Munro's Lives of Girls and Women: A Reader's Guide" (Toronto: ECW Press), 1990</ref>
* ''[[Something I've Been Meaning to Tell You]]'' (1974)
* ''[[Who Do You Think You Are? (book)|Who Do You Think You Are?]]'' (1978)<ref name="besner" />
* ''[[The Moons of Jupiter]]'' (1982)
* ''[[The Progress of Love]]'' (1986)
* ''[[Friend of My Youth]]'' (1990)
* ''[[Open Secrets (short story collection)|Open Secrets]]'' (1994)
* ''[[The Love of a Good Woman]]'' (1998)
* ''[[Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage]]'' (2001)<ref>{{Cite web |title=Books by Alice Munro – Alice Munro Festival of the Short Story |url=https://alicemunrofestival.ca/?page_id=112 |url-status=live |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20221207171122/https://alicemunrofestival.ca/?page_id=112 |archivedate=7 December 2022 |language=en-US}}</ref>
* ''[[Runaway (book)|Runaway]]'' (2004)
* ''[[The View from Castle Rock]]'' (2006)<ref>[http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/12/13/features/bookjeu.php Review: The View From Castle Rock]. [[International Herald Tribune]] (13 December 2006) {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080627012001/http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/12/13/features/bookjeu.php|date=27 June 2008}}</ref>
* ''[[Too Much Happiness]]'' (2009)<ref>[http://www.mcclelland.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9781551993058 Books: ''Too Much Happiness'' by Alice Munro] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240515211841/https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/|date=15 May 2024}} at McClelland and Stewart.</ref>
* ''[[Dear Life (book)|Dear Life]]'' (2012)<ref>[https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/alice-munro-reading-cancelled-amid-health-concerns-1.1128763 "Alice Munro reading cancelled amid health concerns"] . [[CBC News]], 12 October 2012.</ref>
===Short story compilations===

*''[[Selected Stories]]'' (later retitled ''Selected Stories 1968–1994'' and ''A Wilderness Station: Selected Stories, 1968–1994'') – 1996<ref>{{cite web |title=A Wilderness Station: Selected Stories, 1968–1994 |url=https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/530842/a-wilderness-station-by-alice-munro/ |url-status=live |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20230714201237/https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/530842/a-wilderness-station-by-alice-munro/ |archivedate=14 July 2023 |access-date=14 July 2023 |website=Penguin Random House}}</ref>
*''[[No Love Lost (book)|No Love Lost]]'' – 2003<ref>{{cite web |title=No Love Lost |url=https://www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/118613/no-love-lost-by-alice-munro/9780771034817 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240515212010/https://www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/118613/no-love-lost-by-alice-munro/9780771034817 |archive-date=15 May 2024 |accessdate=14 May 2024 |publisher=Penguin Random House}}</ref>
*''[[Vintage Munro]]'' – 2004{{cite book | last=Munro | first=Alice | title=Vintage Munro | publisher=New York : Vintage | publication-place=New York | date=2004 | isbn=978-1-4000-3395-9 }}
*''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<ref>{{cite web |title=My Best Stories |url=https://www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/391930/my-best-stories-by-alice-munro-foreword-by-margaret-atwood/9780143170396 |url-status=live |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20220928120331/https://www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/391930/my-best-stories-by-alice-munro-foreword-by-margaret-atwood/9780143170396 |archivedate=28 September 2022 |accessdate=14 May 2024 |publisher=Penguin Random House}}</ref>
* ''New Selected Stories'' – 2011<ref>{{cite book | last=Munro | first=Alice | title=New Selected Stories | publisher=Random House | publication-place=London | date=2011 | isbn=978-0-7011-7988-5 }}</ref>
* ''Lying Under the Apple Tree. New Selected Stories'' – 2014<ref>{{cite news |last1=Wigfall |first1=Clare |date=15 June 2014 |title=Lying Under the Apple Tree review – Alice Munro's astonishing tales of small-town Canada |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/jun/15/lying-under-the-apple-tree-alice-munro-review-astonishing-tales |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240515211933/https://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/jun/15/lying-under-the-apple-tree-alice-munro-review-astonishing-tales |archive-date=15 May 2024 |accessdate=14 May 2024 |work=The Guardian}}</ref>
* ''Family Furnishings: Selected Stories 1995–2014'' – 2014<ref>{{cite news |last1=Rafferty |first1=Terrence |date=10 December 2014 |title='Family Furnishings,' Selected Stories by Alice Munro |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/14/books/review/family-furnishings-selected-stories-by-alice-munro.html |url-status=live |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20230714203131/https://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/14/books/review/family-furnishings-selected-stories-by-alice-munro.html |archivedate=14 July 2023 |accessdate=14 May 2024 |work=The New York Times}}</ref>

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==Further reading==

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*Atwood, Margaret et al. [http://www.vqronline.org/articles/2006/summer/awano-munro/ "Appreciations of Alice Munro."] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080423000907/http://www.vqronline.org/articles/2006/summer/awano-munro/ |date=23 April 2008 }} ''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. [http://www.newhavenreview.com/index.php/2012/05/kindling-the-creative-fire-alice-munros-two-versions-of-wood/ "Kindling The Creative Fire: Alice Munro's Two Versions of 'Wood.'"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121029151543/http://www.newhavenreview.com/index.php/2012/05/kindling-the-creative-fire-alice-munros-two-versions-of-wood/ |date=29 October 2012 }} ''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. [https://web.archive.org/web/20101229071631/http://www.vqronline.org/blog/2010/10/22/alice-munros-too-much-happiness/ "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.
*Dolnick, Ben. [http://www.themillions.com/2012/07/a-beginners-guide-to-alice-munro.html "A Beginner's Guide to Alice Munro"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131012003457/http://www.themillions.com/2012/07/a-beginners-guide-to-alice-munro.html |date=12 October 2013 }} ''[[The Millions]]'' (5 July 2012)
*[[Douglas Gibson|Gibson, Douglas]]. ''Stories About Storytellers: Publishing Alice Munro, Robertson Davies, Alistair MacLeod, Pierre Trudeau, and Others.'' (ECW Press, 2011.) [https://web.archive.org/web/20131016145607/http://blog.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/blog/posts/stories-about-storytellers-alice-munro-2/ Excerpt.]
*Hooper, Brad ''The Fiction of Alice Munro: An Appreciation'' (Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 2008), {{ISBN|978-0-275-99121-0}}
*Howells, Coral Ann. ''Alice Munro.'' (New York: Manchester University Press, 1998), {{ISBN|978-0-7190-4558-5}}
*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}}''[http://www.//boydellandbrewer.com/space-and-place-in-alice-munro-s-fiction.html].''
*Mazur, Carol and Moulder, Cathy. ''Alice Munro: An Annotated Bibliography of Works and Criticism.'' (Toronto: Scarecrow Press, 2007) {{ISBN|978-0-8108-5924-1}}
*Murray, Jennifer. ''[http://www.mqup.ca/reading-alice-munro-with-jacques-lacan-products-9780773547810.php?page_id=118914& Reading Alice Munro with Jacques Lacan] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190408081323/https://www.mqup.ca/reading-alice-munro-with-jacques-lacan-products-9780773547810.php?page_id=118914& |date=8 April 2019 }}.'' (Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2016)
*Simpson, Mona. [https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2001/12/a-quiet-genius/2366/ A Quiet Genius] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111224193355/http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2001/12/a-quiet-genius/2366/ |date=24 December 2011 }} ''The Atlantic''. (December 2001)
*Somacarrera, Pilar. ''[http://www.degruyter.com/view/books/9788376560175/9788376560175.c6/9788376560175.c6.xml A Spanish Passion for the Canadian Short Story: Reader Responses to Alice Munro's Fiction in Web 2.0] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150923230433/http://www.degruyter.com/view/books/9788376560175/9788376560175.c6/9788376560175.c6.xml |date=23 September 2015 }}'' <small>[[Open Access]]</small>, in: ''[http://www.degruyter.com/view/product/212518 Made in Canada, Read in Spain: Essays on the Translation and Circulation of English-Canadian Literature] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141023210313/http://www.degruyter.com/view/product/212518 |date=23 October 2014 }}'' <small>[[Open Access]]</small>, edited by Pilar Somacarrera, de Gruyter, Berlin 2013, p.&nbsp;129–144, {{ISBN|978-83-7656-017-5}}
*Tausky, Thomas E. [http://specialcollections.ucalgary.ca/manuscript-collections/literary-and-art-archives-canadian/-alice-munro-fonds/biocritical-essay Biocritical Essay.] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140327182223/http://specialcollections.ucalgary.ca/manuscript-collections/literary-and-art-archives-canadian/-alice-munro-fonds/biocritical-essay |date=27 March 2014 }} The University of Calgary Library ''Special Collections'' (1986)
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==External links==
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*[http://noblib.internet-box.ch/NLEW.php?authorid=137 List of Works]
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*[http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/1791/the-art-of-fiction-no-137-alice-munro "Alice Munro, The Art of Fiction No. 137"], ''The Paris Review'' No. 131, Summer 1994
*[https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/12/30/alice-munros-passive-voice "Alice Munro’s Passive Voice"] by [[Rachel Aviv]]. [[The New Yorker]], 23 December 2024
* {{cite web|url=https://thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/literature-in-english|title=Literature in English|author=W. H. New}}
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20070930225053/http://www.contemporarywriters.com/authors/?p=auth03D29L044112635689 Alice Munro] at the [[British Council]] Writers Directory
*[http://www.openculture.com/2013/10/read-14-short-stories-from-nobel-prize-winning-writer-alice-munro-free-online.html Stories by Alice Munro accessible online]
*[https://searcharchives.ucalgary.ca/alice-munro-fonds Alice Munro's papers (fonds) held at the University of Calgary]
* [https://the-toast.net/2014/12/08/tell-alice-munro-story/ How To Tell If You Are in an Alice Munro Story], 8 December 2014
* {{Nobelprize}} with a pre-recorded video conversation with the Laureate Alice Munro: ''In Her Own Words''

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