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About Alice Munro
Canadian short story writer, Nobel Prize in Literature
Alice Munro was a Canadian short story writer, best known for her formally intricate fiction and for winning the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2013. Her stories often move back and forth across time, with closely linked cycles that build into a larger whole. She is widely associated with the short story form, and her work is noted for its careful structure and layered sense of memory.
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Books by Alice Munro
The View from Castle Rock
2008
Lives of Girls and Women
1973
Runaway
2004
Who do you think you are?
2021
Too Much Happiness
2010