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Alice Munro (1931.07.10~) is a Canadian female writer. His representative works include the short story collections "Happy Shadow Dance" and "Escape".
Munro (real name Alice Ann Ledlaw) was born in July 1931 in Vinheim, Huron County, Ontario, Canada. [1] In 1968, he published his first collection of short stories, Dance of the Happy Shades, which won the Governor-General's Literary Award of Canada, and later wrote 14 works that won many awards, and his works were translated into 13 languages and distributed around the world. On October 10, 2013, Alice Munro was awarded the 2013 Nobel Prize in Literature. The award from the Swedish Academy was: "Master of Contemporary Short Story Fiction". As a result, Alice Munro also became the 13th woman in the history of the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Chronology
Chronology
1931
Monroe was born on July 10 in the town of Winheim, Huron County, Ontario, Canada, to a family of ranchers who raised foxes and poultry. His father was Robert Eric Laidlaw and his mother was a school teacher named Anne Clarke Laidlaw. Alice began writing as a teenager and published her first essay in 1950 while studying at the University of Western Ontario, The Dimensions of Shadows.
1949
He majored in English at the University of Western Ontario and worked as a restaurant waiter, tobacco picker and librarian.
1951
He left college to marry James Monroe and moved to Vancouver, British Columbia. Her daughters, Sheila, Catherine and Jenny, were born in 1953, 1955 and 1957 respectively, and Catherine died 15 hours after birth.
1963
The Monroes moved to Victoria, where they founded the Monroe Book Company.
1966
Their daughter Andrea was born.
1968
Alice Munro's first published collection of novels, The Dance of the Happy Shadows, was highly acclaimed, winning that year's Governor-General's Award, Canada's highest literary award. She followed this with The Life of a Girl and a Woman, a set of interrelated stories that together make up a novel.
1972
Alice Monroe and James Monroe divorced. Alice returned to Ontario and became a writer-in-residence at the University of Western Ontario.
1976
Alice married geographer Gerald Fremlin, and the couple moved to a farm outside of Clintontown, Ontario, and later from the farm to Clintontown, where they have lived ever since.
1978
Alice Munro's collection of novels, Who Do You Think You Are? , which is also a set of interrelated stories, was published in the United States under the title "The Beggar Girl: The Story of Frow and Rose." The book earned her a second Governor's Award.
1979-1982
Monroe traveled to Australia, China, and Scandinavia.
1980
She is also a writer-in-residence at both the University of British Columbia and the University of Queensland.
2002
Monroe's daughter, Sheila, published a memoir from her childhood: A Mother's Life with Her Daughter: Growing Up with Alice Munro. Alice Munro's story has been featured in publications such as The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Grand Street, Madame and The Paris Review.
2004
Monroe's masterpiece "Escape" was published, which won the Giller Literary Award in Canada that year and was selected as the New York Times Book of the Year. In 2009
In May, Monroe won the 3rd Booker International Prize for Literature.
2012
After the publication of his latest collection of novels, Dear Life, Monroe announced that he would close his pen.
2013
At 7 p.m. on October 10, the 2013 Nobel Prize in Literature was announced, and Canadian writer Alice Munro was honored. According to CNN, Alice Munro is the first Canadian writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. (Winner of the 1976 Nobel Prize in Literature and born in Quebec, Canada, Saul Bellow is considered an American writer because he moved to the United States as a child.) ）
2013
On December 10, the Nobel Prize ceremony was held in Stockholm, Sweden. Alice Munro, 82, was unable to travel to Sweden due to health reasons, and her daughter Jenny attended the ceremony and accepted the award on her behalf.