Alice Munro 1931-2024

Alice Munro, Nobel Prize winner, Canadian writer and master of the short story, died on the 13th of May at the age of 92.

From 1968-2012, Munro published fourteen original short story collections, the last of which, Dear Life, won her the Nobel in 2013. Munro is known for finding remarkable feeling and depth in superficially mundane stories of (mostly) Canadian life. In the essay "What Makes You So Sure You're Not the Evil One Yourself?", Jonathan Franzen writes, "More than any writer since Chekhov, Munro strives for and achieves, in each of her stories, a gestalt-like completeness in the representation of a life."

In addition to the Nobel, Munro was awarded the Man Booker International Prize and was thrice awarded the Canadian Governor General's Award for fiction, among other accolades.

We have compiled an annotated list of her original collections on Bookshop.org here.