Alice Munro grew up in Wingham, Ontario, and attended the
University of Western Ontario. She has published thirteen
collections of stories as well as a novel, Lives of Girls and
Women, and two volumes of Selected Stories. During her
distinguished career she has been the recipient of many awards and
prizes, including three of Canada’s Governor General’s Literary
Awards and two of its Giller Prizes, the Rea Award for the Short
Story, the Lannan Literary Award, England’s W. H. Smith Book Award,
the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the Man Booker
International Prize. In 2013 she was awarded the Nobel Prize for
Literature. Her stories have appeared in The New Yorker, The
Atlantic Monthly, The Paris Review, Granta, and other publications,
and her collections have been translated into thirteen languages.
She lives in Clinton, Ontario, near Lake Huron.
?Munro has an unerring talent for uncovering the extraordinary in the ordinary. Newsweek
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