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Alice Munro

(Alice Ann Munro)
Canada (1931 - 2024)

Alice Ann Munro was 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.

Awards: Nobel (2013), Booker (2009), NBCC (1998), PEN (1997) see all

Genres: Literary Fiction

Novels

Lives of Girls and Women (1973)

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)
   Selected Stories: 1995-2009 (2021)
   Stories for Christmas and the Festive Season (2022) (with others)

Novellas and Short Stories

   Queenie (1999)
   Away from Her (2007)
   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)

Books containing stories by Alice Munro

100 Years of the Best American Short Stories (2015)
(Best American Short Stories)
edited by
Lorrie Moore and Heidi Pitlor

Every Father's Daughter (2015)
Twenty-four Women Writers Remember Their Fathers
edited by
Margaret McMullan

Woman: An Anthology (2014)
edited by
M C Joudrey

More books

Awards

	2013 Nobel Prize in Literature
	2009 International Booker Prize (pre 2016)
	1998 National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction : The Love of a Good Woman
	1997 PEN/Malamud Award

Award nominations

	2006 James Tait Black Memorial Prize (nominee) : The View from Castle Rock
	2001 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction (nominee) : Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage
	1995 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction (nominee) : Open Secrets
	1990 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction (nominee) : Friend of My Youth
	1980 Booker Prize (shortlist) : The Beggar Maid

Alice Munro recommends

Midnight Train to Prague (2020)
Carol Windley
"Carol Windley’s writing has a unique power, a perfect combination of delicacy, intensity, and fearless imagination."

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."

Saints and Sinners (2011)
Edna O'Brien
"Edna O'Brien writes the most beautiful, aching stories of any writer, anywhere."