Alice Munro

Alice Munro
Munro in 2006
Born	Alice Ann Laidlaw (1931-07-10)10 July 1931 Wingham, Ontario, Canada
Died	13 May 2024(2024-05-13) (aged 92) Port Hope, Ontario, Canada
Occupation	Short story writer
Language	English
Education	University of Western Ontario
Genre	Short fiction short story cycle literary fiction
Notable awards	Governor General's Award (1968, 1978, 1986) Giller Prize (1998, 2004) Man Booker International Prize (2009) Nobel Prize in Literature (2013)
Spouse	James Munro ​ ​ (m. 1951; div. 1972)​ Gerald Fremlin ​ ​ (m. 1976; died 2013)​
Children	4

Alice Ann Munro (/mənˈroʊ/; née Laidlaw /ˈleɪdlɔː/; 10 July 1931 – 13 May 2024) was a Canadian short story writer who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2013. Her work is said to have revolutionized the architecture of the short story, especially in its tendency to move forward and backward in time, and with integrated short fiction cycles.

Munro's fiction is most often set in her native Huron County in southwestern Ontario. Her stories explore human complexities in an uncomplicated prose style. Her writing established her reputation as a great author in the vein of Anton Chekhov.

Munro received the Man Booker International Prize in 2009 for her lifetime body of work. She was also a three-time winner of Canada's Governor General's Award for Fiction, and received the Writers' Trust of Canada's 1996 Marian Engel Award and the 2004 Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize for Runaway. She mostly stopped writing around 2013 and died at her home in 2024.