![]() ![]() ![]() The stories may be set in small towns but their range and depth are anything but trifling. Even her novel, Lives of Girls and Women, reads more like a series of semi-autobiographical episodes sharing a narrator, rather than an unbroken narrative.īorn in Wingham, Ontario, the majority of Munro’s stories are set in the Canadian province in which she grew up. Munro began her career publishing stories in literary magazines, selling her first at 18, before going on to publish collections including Open Secrets and The Love of a Good Woman. ![]() She has been called “Our Chekhov” by the American writer Cynthia Ozick. The announcement of Alice Munro as 2013’s winner of the Nobel Prize for literature marks the high point in the 82-year old writer’s long career, but also a significant recognition for the form with which she is so closely aligned, the short story. ![]()
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