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ANANTA OKA SUGAWA 5031611003


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

Alice Munro on writing about life,


love, sex and secrets.
QNA FROM AUDIENCES

1. Nurul Atikah
2. Febiyana Annisa
3. Deborah Engeline
4. Riny Stevany
5. Ade Kholik
6. Dwi Ariyani
7. Tantipah Amanda
8. Karyati

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