Nobel Prize-winning Alice Munro: A short story virtuoso with a touch of 'magic'
Alice Munro , a Nobel laureate celebrated as a master of the contemporary short story, has died at the age of 92.
Canadian author and Nobel laureate Alice Munro set her taut, acutely observed stories in the rural Ontario countryside where she grew up, focusing a stark lens on the frailties of the human condition. When Munro was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature in 2013, the organisers dubbed her a"master of the contemporary short story" and noted that some critics considered her"a Canadian Chekhov."
She was sometimes described as the complete opposite of another great dame of Canadian literature - Margaret Atwood.Born on 10 July 1931, in Wingham, Ontario, she grew up in the countryside. Her father Robert Eric Laidlaw raised foxes and poultry, while her mother was a small-town schoolteacher."I think maybe I was successful in doing this because I didn't have any other talents," she explained in an interview once.I was an okay housewife but I wasn't that great.
Her short stories often appeared in the pages of prestigious magazines, such as The New Yorker and The Atlantic, with her last collection, Critics praised her for writing about women for women, but without demonising men. Munro herself said she writes about the"underbelly of relationships," adding she set her stories in Canada"because I live life here at a level of irritation which I would not achieve in a place that I knew less well".
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