Alice Munro (1931–2024)
Autor de Escapada
Sobre El Autor
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 mostrar más 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) mostrar menos
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Series
Obras de Alice Munro
Il ponte galleggiante - Ortiche 15 copias
Julieta (Movie Tie-in Edition): Three Stories That Inspired the Movie (Vintage International) (2016) 15 copias, 2 reseñas
Nettles 4 copias
Meneseteung 4 copias
Boys and Girls 3 copias
Child's Play 3 copias
How I Met My Husband 2 copias
Bardon Bus 2 copias
Dimension 2 copias
Lost in Transmission 2 copias
Prue [short story] 2 copias
Sin título 1 copia
Жребий; Лицо 1 copia
In fuga 1 copia
Leaving Maverley 1 copia
E SHTRENJTA JETE 1 copia
Egy joravalo nö szerelme 1 copia
Rare Antique OPEN SECRETS Alice Munro 1st Edition NOBEL PRIZE Stories First Printing Fiction 1 copia
℗Il ℗ponte galleggiante: Ortiche 1 copia
Too Much Happiness: Stories 1 copia
"The Peace of Utrecht" 1 copia
Save the reaper 1 copia
Trốn Chạy 1 copia
“Walker Brothers Cowboy” 1 copia
Some Women 1 copia
Munro, Alice Archive 1 copia
Fathers (short story) 1 copia
Munro Alice 1 copia
Stinkreich : eine Erzählung. 1 copia
A Real Life 1 copia
Silence [short story] 1 copia
La visita (in Le lune di Giove) 1 copia
Dulse (in Le lune di Giove) 1 copia
The Albanian Virgin 1 copia
Teddy Tum Tum's Boating Trip 1 copia
Scary old sex: stories 1 copia
Queenie [Short story] 1 copia
Train 1 copia
Wilderness Station {short story} 1 copia
Axis 1 copia
Wood 1 copia
Face 1 copia
Free Radicals 1 copia
Deep-Holes 1 copia
Wenlock Edge 1 copia
Colophon (in Troppa felicità) 1 copia
Obras relacionadas
Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama (1995) — Contribuidor, algunas ediciones — 948 copias, 7 reseñas
In the Stacks: Short Stories about Libraries and Librarians (2002) — Contribuidor — 540 copias, 13 reseñas
The Scribner Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction: Fifty North American American Stories Since 1970 (1999) — Contribuidor — 529 copias, 4 reseñas
The World of the Short Story: A 20th Century Collection (1986) — Contribuidor — 465 copias, 4 reseñas
Points of View: An Anthology of Short Stories, Revised & Updated Edition (1995) — Contribuidor — 414 copias, 7 reseñas
You've Got to Read This: Contemporary American Writers Introduce Stories that Held Them in Awe (1994) — Contribuidor — 385 copias, 3 reseñas
First Fiction: An Anthology of the First Published Stories by Famous Writers (1994) — Contribuidor — 187 copias, 1 reseña
In Another Part of the Forest: An Anthology of Gay Short Fiction (1994) — Contribuidor — 180 copias, 2 reseñas
Norton Introduction to the Short Novel (1982) — Contribuidor, algunas ediciones — 100 copias, 1 reseña
More Stories We Tell: The Best Contemporary Short Stories by North American Women (2004) — Contribuidor — 63 copias
Literary Traveller: An Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction (1994) — Contribuidor — 54 copias, 1 reseña
Jo's Girls: Tomboy Tales of High Adventure, True Grit, and Real Life (1997) — Contribuidor — 47 copias
The Oxford Book of Stories by Canadian Women in English (1999) — Autor, algunas ediciones — 28 copias
Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Nombre legal
- Laidlaw, Alice Anne
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1931-07-10
- Fecha de fallecimiento
- 2024-05-13
- Género
- female
- Nacionalidad
- Canada
- Lugar de nacimiento
- Wingham, Ontario, Canada
- Lugar de fallecimiento
- Port Hope, Ontario, Canada (care home)
- Causa de fallecimiento
- complications of dementia
- Lugares de residencia
- Wingham, Ontario, Canada
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
Clinton, Ontario, Canada
Comox, British Columbia, Canada - Educación
- University of Western Ontario
- Ocupaciones
- bookstore owner
short story writer
novelist - Relaciones
- Munro, Sheila (daughter)
Gibson, Douglas (editor) - Organizaciones
- Munro's Books
- Premios y honores
- Nobelprijs voor Literatuur (2013)
CBA Libris Award ( [2005])
CBA Libris Award ( [1999])
PEN/Malamud Award (1997)
Lannan Literary Award ( [1995])
CBA Libris Award ( [1995]) (mostrar todos 9)
Lorne Pierce Medal (1993)
Molson Prize (1990)
Marian Engel Award (1986) - Agente
- William Loverd
Miembros
Debates
Alice Munro legacy en Canadian Literature (julio 15)
Alice Munro en Folio Society Devotees (mayo 20)
March 2015: Alice Munro en Monthly Author Reads (julio 2015)
Three Cheers for Alice Munro! en Canadian Bookworms (octubre 2013)
Alice Munro en Book talk (octubre 2013)
Reseñas
Listas
Female Author (3)
Bedbooks (1)
Big Jubilee List (1)
Booker Prize (1)
Read These Too (1)
Unread books (1)
100 New Classics (1)
2000s decade (1)
to get (1)
Canada (2)
Five star books (1)
To Read (1)
Favourite Books (1)
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Estadísticas
- Obras
- 132
- También por
- 68
- Miembros
- 28,022
- Popularidad
- #723
- Valoración
- 3.9
- Reseñas
- 713
- ISBNs
- 867
- Idiomas
- 31
- Favorito
- 192