1、Alice Munro,Alice Munro （1931）,The recipient of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Literature,Born:10 July 1931,Wingham,Canada Nationality: Canadian Genres:Short stories Prize motivation:“master of the contemporary short story” Language:English,Contents,Personal life,Early life Munro began writing as a teenage
2、r. She published her first story,“The Dimensions of a Shadow,” in 1950. She study English and Journalism at the University of Western Ontario. In 1951,she left university to marry fellow student James Munro.,Personal life,Marriage and Middle-aged life Munro married James Monro in 1951. They had four
3、 daughters,one died 15 hours after birth. In 1963,the Munros moved to Victoria where they opened Munros Books. Alice and James Munro divorced in 1972. In 1976,she married Gerald Fremlin.,Personal life,Recent life Munro and Fremlin moved to a farm outside Clinton,Ontario,and later to a house in Clint
4、on, where Fremlin died in 2013. In 2009 Munro indicated that she had received treatment for cancer.,Career,The Governor Gernerals Award Munros first collection of stories Dance of the Happy Shades (1968) won the Generals Award. In 1978,Munros collection interlinked stories Who Do You Think You Are e
5、arned a second Governor Generals Literary Award.,Career,The Nobel Prize On 10 October 2013,Munro was awarded the Nobel Prize,cited as a “master of the contemporary short stories”. She is the first Canadian and the 13th woman to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature.,Works,Writing style Strong region
6、al focus. Many of Munros stories are set in Huron County,Ontario. The omniscient narrator who serves to make sense of the world. Her male characters tend to capture the essence of the everyman,while her female characters are more complex.,Works,Themes of her works About the fate of ordinary women. A
7、 frequent theme of her early stories has been the dilemmas of a girl coming to terms with her family, and the small town she grew up in. About illness and death. Her novels are staged in family life,and they are involved in the seriousness of illness and death.,Recommend Reading,List of short stories by Alice Munro Dance of the Happy Shades1968 Lives of Girls and Women1971 Who Do You Think You Are1978 Friend of My Youth1990 The Love of a Good Woman1998 Runaway2004 Too Much Happiness2009,
