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Alice Ann Munro (née Laidlaw; born 10 July 1931) is a Canadian short-story writer, winner of the 2009 Man Booker International Prize for her lifetime body of work, three-time winner of Canada's Governor General's Award for fiction, and a perennial contender for the Nobel Prize. Generally regarded to be one of the world's foremost writers of fiction, her stories focus on the human condition and relationships seen through the lens of daily life. While the locus of Munro’s fiction is 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."
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GenderFemale
Birthday1931-07-10 (92 years old)
Birth NameAlice Ann Laidlaw
Birth PlaceWingham, Canada
Relationshipshttp://www.wikidata.org/.well-known/genid/784f676d459fd37e9130c13d918c1dea (1951-01-01 - 1972-01-01), Gerald Fremlin (1976-01-01 - 2013-01-01)
CitizenshipsCanada
AwardsFellow of the Royal Society of Literature, Commonwealth Writers' Prize, Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres, Atwood Gibson Writers' Trust Fiction Prize, Governor General's Award for English-language fiction, Lorne Pierce Medal, Trillium Book Award, Rea Award for the Short Story, Man Booker International Prize, International Booker Prize, WH Smith Literary Award, National Book Critics Circle Award, Scotiabank Giller Prize, PEN/Malamud Award, Marian Engel Award, Molson Prize, Order of Ontario, Nobel Prize in Literature, O. Henry Award
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