Alice Munro

Canadian writer (1931-2024) · Canada · Writers · Died at 92

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A short story writer who won the Nobel Prize in 2013 for prose that moved through time in quiet, exact sentences set mostly in southwestern Ontario. Two months after her death, her daughter revealed that Munro had known since 1992 that her second husband sexually abused the daughter as a child, and stayed with him.

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A life in dates

2024Died13 May 20242013Nobel Prize in LiteratureAward2012“The thing is to be happy,' he said. 'No matter what. Just try that. You can. It gets to be easier and easier. It's nothing to do with circumstances.”In their wordsDear Life (2012)Read the whole statement

2010Chevalier des Arts et des LettresAward2009“Always remember that when a man goes out of the room, he leaves everything in it behind... When a woman goes out she carries everything that happened in the room along with her.”In their words"Too Much Happiness", in Too Much Happiness (2009)Read the whole statement

“In your life there are a few places, or maybe only the one place, where something happened, and then there are all the other places.”In their words"Too Much Happiness", in Too Much Happiness (2009)Read the whole statement

2008O. Henry AwardAward2006O. Henry AwardAward2004Atwood Gibson Writers' Trust Fiction PrizeAward2002Fellow of the Royal Society of LiteratureAward1998Giller PrizeAwardNational Book Critics Circle Award for FictionAward1995“Because if she let go of her grief even for a minute it would only hit her harder when she bumped into it again.”In their wordsFamily Furnishings: Selected Stories, 1995-2014 (2014)Read the whole statement

WH Smith Literary AwardAward1994“You cannot let your parents anywhere near your real humiliations.”In their wordsOpen Secrets (1994)Read the whole statement

Order of OntarioAward1990Molson PrizeAward1986Marian Engel AwardAward1978Governor General's Award for English-language fictionAward1968“A story is not like a road to follow … it's more like a house.”In their wordsSelected Stories, 1968-1994 (1996)Read the whole statement

Governor General's Award for English-language fictionAward1931Born10 July 1931

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The thing is to be happy,' he said. 'No matter what. Just try that. You can. It gets to be easier and easier. It's nothing to do with circumstances.
2012, Dear Life (2012), Own words
Always remember that when a man goes out of the room, he leaves everything in it behind... When a woman goes out she carries everything that happened in the room along with her.
2009, "Too Much Happiness", in Too Much Happiness (2009), Own words
In your life there are a few places, or maybe only the one place, where something happened, and then there are all the other places.
2009, "Too Much Happiness", in Too Much Happiness (2009), Own words

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Awards

Nobel Prize in Literature2013

Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres2010

International Booker Prize2009

O. Henry Award2008

O. Henry Award2006

Giller Prize2004

Atwood Gibson Writers' Trust Fiction Prize2004

Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature2002

Rea Award for the Short Story2001

Giller Prize1998

National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction1998

PEN/Malamud Award1997

WH Smith Literary Award1995

Order of Ontario1994

Lorne Pierce Medal1993

Molson Prize1990

Marian Engel Award1986

Governor General's Award for English-language fiction1986

Governor General's Award for English-language fiction1978

Governor General's Award for English-language fiction1968

Commonwealth Writers' Prize

Flaiano Literary Prize

Family

Father Robert Laidlaw

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Alice Ann Munro was born 10 July 1931 in Huron County, southwestern Ontario, where she would set most of her fiction. Her short stories explored human complexities in meticulous, simple prose that moved forward and backward in time, often in integrated cycles. She won Canada's Governor General's Award for Fiction three times, the Man Booker International Prize in 2009, and the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2013. She stopped writing around 2013 and died at her home 13 May 2024. Two months later her daughter Andrea Skinner revealed that Munro's second husband, Gerald Fremlin, had sexually abused Skinner starting in 1976 when she was a child, that Munro learned of it in 1992, and chose to stay with Fremlin. The disclosure prompted reevaluation of Munro's legacy.

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