Alice Munro
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About the Author
Alice Munro was born Alice Laidlaw in Wingham, Ontario on July 10, 1931. She published her first story, The Dimensions of a Shadow, while a student at the University of Western Ontario in 1950. She left the university in 1951 to get married and start a family. In 1972 she became Writer in Residence näytä lisää at the University of Western Ontario. Her first collection, Dance of the Happy Shades, was published in 1968 and won the Governor General's Award, Canada's highest literary prize. Her other works include Lives of Girls and Women, The View from Castle Rock, Something I've Been Meaning to Tell You, Too Much Happiness, and Dear Life. She has received several awards including the Governor General's Award for fiction for Who Do You Think You Are? and The Progress of Love, the Giller Prize for Runaway in 2004, the Man Booker International Prize in 2009 for her lifetime body of work, and the 2013 Nobel Prize in Literature. Her stories have appeared in numerous publications including The New Yorker, The Paris Review, and The Atlantic Monthly. Also, in 2013, her title Dear Life: Stories made The New York Times Best Seller List. (Bowker Author Biography) näytä vähemmän
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Il ponte galleggiante - Ortiche 15 kappaletta
Julieta (Movie Tie-in Edition): Three Stories That Inspired the Movie (Vintage International) (2016) 13 kappaletta
Meneseteung 4 kappaletta
Nettles 4 kappaletta
Child's Play 3 kappaletta
The Love of a Good Woman [short story] 3 kappaletta
Too Much Happiness, Dance fo the Happy Shades, Lives of Girls and Women, Who do you Think you Are?, Moon of Jupiter,… 3 kappaletta
Amundsen 3 kappaletta
Dimension 2 kappaletta
Lost in Transmission 2 kappaletta
Boys and Girls 2 kappaletta
Corrie 2 kappaletta
How I Met My Husband 2 kappaletta
Bardon Bus 2 kappaletta
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Rare Antique FRIEND OF MY YOUTH Alice Munro NOBEL PRIZE 1st Edition First Printing STORIES 1 kappale
Жребий; Лицо 1 kappale
Ei otsikkoa 1 kappale
El progreso del amor 1 kappale
Rare Antique OPEN SECRETS Alice Munro 1st Edition NOBEL PRIZE Stories First Printing Fiction 1 kappale
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E SHTRENJTA JETE 1 kappale
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Trốn Chạy 1 kappale
Face 1 kappale
Munro, Alice Archive 1 kappale
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L'incidente (in Le lune di Giove) 1 kappale
Dulse (in Le lune di Giove) 1 kappale
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Queenie [Short story] 1 kappale
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Train 1 kappale
Axis 1 kappale
Wood 1 kappale
Some Women 1 kappale
Free Radicals 1 kappale
Deep-Holes 1 kappale
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Associated Works
Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama (1995) — Avustaja, eräät painokset — 902 kappaletta
The Scribner Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction: Fifty North American American Stories Since 1970 (1999) — Avustaja — 495 kappaletta
You've Got to Read This: Contemporary American Writers Introduce Stories that Held Them in Awe (1994) — Avustaja — 376 kappaletta
First Fiction: An Anthology of the First Published Stories by Famous Writers (1994) — Avustaja — 182 kappaletta
More Stories We Tell: The Best Contemporary Short Stories by North American Women (2004) — Avustaja — 63 kappaletta
Jo's Girls: Tomboy Tales of High Adventure, True Grit, and Real Life (1997) — Avustaja — 46 kappaletta
The Oxford Book of Stories by Canadian Women in English (1999) — Tekijä, eräät painokset — 29 kappaletta
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Yleistieto
- Virallinen nimi
- Laidlaw, Alice Anne
- Syntymäaika
- 1931-07-10
- Sukupuoli
- female
- Kansalaisuus
- Kanada
- Syntymäpaikka
- Wingham, Ontario, Canada
- Asuinpaikat
- Wingham, Ontario, Canada
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
Clinton, Ontario, Canada
Comox, British Columbia, Canada - Koulutus
- University of Western Ontario
- Ammatit
- bookstore owner
short story writer
novelist - Suhteet
- Munro, Sheila (daughter)
- Organisaatiot
- American Academy of Arts and Letters (Foreign Honorary, Literature, 1992)
- Palkinnot ja kunnianosoitukset
- Kansainvälinen Booker-palkinto (2009)
Nobelin kirjallisuuspalkinto (2013) - Agentti
- William Loverd
Jäseniä
Keskustelut
March 2015: Alice Munro, Monthly Author Reads (heinäkuu 2015)
Three Cheers for Alice Munro!, Canadian Bookworms (lokakuuta 2013)
Alice Munro, Book talk (lokakuuta 2013)
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