Alice Munro
(Alice Ann Munro)
Canada (1931 - )
Alice Ann Munro is a Canadian short-story writer and three-time winner of Canada's Governor General's Award for fiction. Widely considered one of the finest living English-language short story writers, her stories focus on human relationships looked at through the lens of daily life. While most of Munro's fiction is set in Southwestern Ontario, her reputation as a short-story writer is international. Her "accessible, moving stories" explore human complexities in a seemingly effortless style. Munro's writing has established her as "one of our greatest contemporary writers of fiction," or, as Cynthia Ozick put it, "our Chekhov."
Novels
Collections
Dance of the Happy Shades (1968)
Something I've Been Meaning to Tell You (1974)
The Beggar Maid (1978)
aka Who Do You Think You Are?
The Moons of Jupiter (1982)
The Progress of Love (1986)
Friend of My Youth (1990)
Open Secrets (1994)
Selected Stories (1996)
The Love of a Good Woman (1998)
Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage (2001)
No Love Lost (2003)
Vintage Munro (2004)
Runaway (2004)
Carried Away (2006)
The View from Castle Rock (2006)
Alice Munro's Best (2008)
Too Much Happiness (2009)
My Best Stories (2009)
New Selected Stories (2011)
Dear Life (2012)
Lying Under the Apple Tree (2014)
Family Furnishings: Selected Stories, 1995-2014 (2014)
A Wilderness Station: Selected Stories, 1968-1994 (2015)
Julieta (2016)
Something I've Been Meaning to Tell You (1974)
The Beggar Maid (1978)
aka Who Do You Think You Are?
The Moons of Jupiter (1982)
The Progress of Love (1986)
Friend of My Youth (1990)
Open Secrets (1994)
Selected Stories (1996)
The Love of a Good Woman (1998)
Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage (2001)
No Love Lost (2003)
Vintage Munro (2004)
Runaway (2004)
Carried Away (2006)
The View from Castle Rock (2006)
Alice Munro's Best (2008)
Too Much Happiness (2009)
My Best Stories (2009)
New Selected Stories (2011)
Dear Life (2012)
Lying Under the Apple Tree (2014)
Family Furnishings: Selected Stories, 1995-2014 (2014)
A Wilderness Station: Selected Stories, 1968-1994 (2015)
Julieta (2016)
Novellas
Queenie (1999)
The Bear Came Over The Mountain (2011)
Comfort (2011)
Family Furnishings (2011)
Floating Bridge (2011)
Nettles (2011)
Post and Beam (2011)
What Is Remembered (2011)
The Office (2015)
The Bear Came Over The Mountain (2011)
Comfort (2011)
Family Furnishings (2011)
Floating Bridge (2011)
Nettles (2011)
Post and Beam (2011)
What Is Remembered (2011)
The Office (2015)
Short Stories
Awards
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Alice Munro recommends
The Lost Salt Gift of Blood (1976) Alistair MacLeod "It is hard to think of anyone who casts a spell the way Alistair MacLeod can." | Duet for Three (1985) Joan Barfoot "In Duet for Three, Joan Barfoot's charting of family life is unsparing, painful, witty, and surprising. The cumulative effect is remarkably powerful." | God's Snake (1986) Irini Spanidou "Passionate . . . a wonderful book." |
Graven Images (1993) Audrey Thomas "An exuberant, horrific excavation of a family's life and history... wild, witty." | Cereus Blooms at Night (1997) Shani Mootoo "A story of magical power." | Amy and Isabelle (1998) Elizabeth Strout "A novel of shining integrity and humour." |
The Deep and Other Stories (2003) Mary Swan "A writer who arrives with grace and authority." | What the Stones Remember (2005) Patrick Lane "To read this book is to enter a state of enchantment." | Vanishing and Other Stories (2009) Deborah Willis "The emotional range and depth of these stories, the clarity and deftness, is astonishing." |
Suddenly (2009) Bonnie Burnard "A writer who can tell you hard truths, hopefully." | Saints and Sinners (2011) Edna O'Brien "Edna O'Brien writes the most beautiful, aching stories of any writer, anywhere." | Cadillac Cathedral (2014) Jack Hodgins "Jack Hodgins' stories do one of the best things fiction can do-they reveal the extra dimension of the real place, they light up crazy necessities of real life." |
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