Alice Munro is a renowned Canadian author who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2013. She was born in 1931 in Ontario, Canada and left university after two years to get married. Munro published her first collection of short stories called Dance of the Happy Shades in 1968, which won Canada's Governor General's Award and established her themes of rural life and coming-of-age. She has published several short story collections that have won numerous awards, and said she would retire from writing after her 2012 collection Dear Life, though she has since published another collection.
Alice Munro is a renowned Canadian author who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2013. She was born in 1931 in Ontario, Canada and left university after two years to get married. Munro published her first collection of short stories called Dance of the Happy Shades in 1968, which won Canada's Governor General's Award and established her themes of rural life and coming-of-age. She has published several short story collections that have won numerous awards, and said she would retire from writing after her 2012 collection Dear Life, though she has since published another collection.
Alice Munro is a renowned Canadian author who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2013. She was born in 1931 in Ontario, Canada and left university after two years to get married. Munro published her first collection of short stories called Dance of the Happy Shades in 1968, which won Canada's Governor General's Award and established her themes of rural life and coming-of-age. She has published several short story collections that have won numerous awards, and said she would retire from writing after her 2012 collection Dear Life, though she has since published another collection.
DESTY ANGGRAINI 5031611011 RINDA DWI ANDINI 5031611039 BIOGRAPHY • Alice Munro, original name Alice Ann Laidlaw, born July 10, 1931, Wingham, Ontario, Canada. • She attended the University of Western Ontario but left after two years of studying English and journalism. • At age 20, in 1951, she married her first husband, James Munro, and moved to Vancouver. She moved again in 1963 to Victoria, where the couple started a bookstore and together raised three daughters. After her first marriage ended in 1972, she returned to Ontario and settled in Clinton, near her childhood home, where she lived with her second husband married 1976 with Gerrard Fremlin. ACHIEVEMENT 1968 - Won Governor’s General Award in Canada 2009 - Won the Man Booker International Prize 2013 - First Canadian citizen and the 13th woman to awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature DANCE OF THE HAPPY SHADES
Munro's first collection of
short stories, published in 1968, won the Governor General's Award. It introduced readers to classic Munro themes: life in rural southwestern Ontario, where she grew up, and coming-of- age struggles. RUNAWAY Runaway is a book of short stories by Alice Munro. First published in 2004 by McClelland and Stewart, in this there are it was awarded that year's Giller Prize and Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize. DEAR LIFE After this collection was published in 2012, Munro said she will retire from writing. In these stories, Munro stays true to her rural landscapes and explorations of ordinary lives and human nature. She won the Trillium Book Award for Dear Life. WRITING STYLES