Alice Munro

@Writers, Birthday and Family ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Alice Munro is a Man Booker International Prize winning writer from Canada Cancer Celebrities Nobel Laureates In Literature Canadian Writers Alice Munro, born as Alice Ann Laidlaw, is a Canadian writer who won the 2013 Nobel Prize in Literature and the Man Booker International Prize in 2009 for her lifetime body of work. She specializes in short story writing and is known for her easy-to-read and moving style that explores human complexities effortlessly. She is regarded as one of the greatest contemporary writers of fiction. The focus of her stories is her native place, southwestern Ontario, and she often describes the local people, their aspirations and lifestyles in her writings. She began writing as a teenager and published her first story as a student. Her first collection of stories, ‘Dance of the Happy Shades’ was highly appreciated and won the Governor General's Award, Canada’s highest literary prize. Her strong regional focus and complex female characters are characteristic of her writings. Most of her works belong to the literary genre known as Southern Ontario Gothic. One recurrent theme in the stories she wrote in her youth was that of a girl coming of age and dealing with the associated challenges and confusions. Maturing as a writer and a woman, the focus of her stories shifted to the challenges faced by middle-aged and elderly women. A prolific writer, she continues to write even today, in spite of battling several health problems at the age of 81.

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Birthday: July 10, 1931 Nationality: Canadian Famous: Nobel Laureates In Literature, Writers Spouses: Gerald Fremlin, James Munro Known as: Alice Ann Munro Childrens: Sheila Catherine Jenny Universities: University of Western Ontario Information Detail Birthday July 10, 1931 Nationality Canadian Famous Nobel Laureates In Literature, Writers Spouses Gerald Fremlin, James Munro Known as Alice Ann Munro Childrens Sheila Catherine Jenny Universities University of Western Ontario Birth Place Wingham, Ontario, Canada Gender Female Father Robert Eric Laidlaw Mother Anne Clarke Laidlaw Sun Sign Cancer Born in Wingham, Ontario, Canada

Wingham, Ontario, Canada

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She married James Munro in 1951 and had four daughters with him. They were divorced in 1972. Unsplash Personal Life

She married Gerald Fremlin, a geographer, in 1976. They remained married till his death in 2013. Unsplash Personal Life

As a writer, Munro has influenced many others like Margaret Atwood, William Trevor, Jhumpa Lahiri, and Jonathan Franzen. Unsplash Personal Life

Alice Munro was born in Ontario, Canada, to Robert Eric Laidlaw and Anne Clarke. Her father was a fox and poultry farmer while her mother was a school teacher. Unsplash Childhood & Early Life

In 1949, she joined the University of Ontario to pursue a course in English. She did not complete her degree and left the university to get married in 1951. Unsplash Childhood & Early Life

Alice Munro and her then husband James Munro opened a bookstore, Munro’s Books in Victoria in 1963. Her first collection of short stories, ‘Dance of the Happy Shades’ was published in 1968. It became an instant hit and received critical acclaim. Unsplash Career

Her only novel, ‘Lives of Girls and Women’ was published in 1971. The book is a collection of interrelated stories revolving around the life of a single character, Del Jordan. Many feminist ideas and concepts are discussed in the novel. Unsplash Career

After her divorce from James in 1972, she returned to Ontario and became Writer-in-residence at the University of Western Ontario. Unsplash Career

In 1974, she published another book of short stories, titled, ‘Something I've been meaning to tell you.’ It also included the short story, ‘How I Met My Husband.’ Unsplash Career

Her collection of short stories, ‘Who do you think you are?’ was published in 1978 in Canada. In countries outside Canada, the same book was published under the title, ‘The Beggar Maid.’ Unsplash Career

She created a literary sensation with her highly acclaimed first collection of stories, ‘Dance of the Happy Shades’ published in 1968. It went on to win the renowned Governor General’s Award for English fiction. Unsplash Major Works

Her 1978 book of short stories ‘Who Do You Think you Are?’ was a critically acclaimed work of fiction that won for her another Governor General’s Award. The book was published as ‘The Beggar maid’ outside of Canada. Unsplash Major Works

‘Runaway’, published in 2004 was a collection of short stories about the lives of women and the complicated human relationships they found themselves in. The book won the Giller Prize for that year. Unsplash Major Works

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Birthday	July 10, 1931
Nationality	Canadian
Famous	Nobel Laureates In Literature, Writers
Spouses	Gerald Fremlin, James Munro
Known as	Alice Ann Munro
Childrens	Sheila Catherine Jenny
Universities	University of Western Ontario
Birth Place	Wingham, Ontario, Canada
Gender	Female
Father	Robert Eric Laidlaw
Mother	Anne Clarke Laidlaw
Sun Sign	Cancer
Born in	Wingham, Ontario, Canada

Alice Munro

Canadian

Jul 10, 1931

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Wingham, Ontario, Canada