Alice Munro, winner of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Literature,
grew up in Wingham, Ontario, and attended the University of Western Ontario.
She has published eleven collections of stories and two volumes of selected
stories, as well as a novel. 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
United States’ National Book Critics Circle Award, the Edward MacDowell Medal
in literature, and the Man Booker International Prize. Her stories have
appeared in the New Yorker, Atlantic Monthly, Paris Review, and other publications, and her collections have been
translated into thirteen languages. She lives in Clinton, Ontario, near Lake
Huron. |