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Alice Munro

Short story writer · 1931-2024

Alice Munro
MacDowell · CC BY-SA 3.0

Wrote almost nothing but short stories, set mostly in one corner of southwestern Ontario, and won the Nobel.

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Life story

  1. July 10, 1931 · Wingham, Ontario
    Born at Wingham in Huron County
  2. 1963 · Victoria, British Columbia
    Opened Munro's Books in Victoria with her first husband
  3. 1968 · Toronto
    Won the Governor General's Award for Dance of the Happy Shades
  4. 1975 · Clinton, Ontario
    Returned to Huron County, the setting of most of her work
  5. October 10, 2013 · Stockholm, Sweden
    Won the Nobel Prize in Literature, the first Canadian to do so
  6. May 13, 2024 · Port Hope, Ontario
    Died at Port Hope, Ontario

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