Alice Munro Biography

Alice Munro was born in Canada in 1931 and studied at the University of Western Ontario. She is best known for her short tales. Dance of the Happy Shades was her debut collection of short tales. Munro received the Man Booker International Prize in 2009. In the same year, she released Too Much Happiness, a collection of short stories. Munro received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2013 at the age of 82. Alice Munro studied journalism and English at the University of Western Ontario, but she dropped out after just two years. Dance of the Happy Shades, Munro's first collection of tales (and first book-length work), was released in 1968 and received widespread acclaim in Munro's home Canada, receiving her first Governor General's Award for literature. She released Lives of Girls and Women three years later. Munro is best known for her short stories set in Ontario, and she has published several collections over the years, including Who Do You Think You Are?, The Moons of Jupiter, Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage (which was adapted into a film), Away from Her, Runaway, and The View from Castle Rock. Munro earned her second Governor Award for The Progress of Love in 1998, precisely three decades after she received her first for The Progress of Love. Munro received the Man Booker International Prize in 2009 for her lifetime body of work. In the same year, she released Too Much Happiness, a collection of short stories. Munro would go on to write 13 collections of short stories by the time she was 80 years old. Dear Life was her first book, which she released in 2012. Munro was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in October 2013, at the age of 82, with the Swedish Academy hailing her as the master of the modern short story. Munro is the first Canadian woman to win the Nobel Honor for Literature, and the first woman to win the prize since Herta Mueller in 2009. She is also just the 13th woman to win the prize since it was established in 1901. In addition, she is the first Canadian writer to earn the Nobel Prize in Literature since Saul Bellow in 1976.

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