“In those early days, the important thing was the happy ending. I did not tolerate unhappy endings - for my heroines, anyway. And later on, I began to read things like 'Wuthering Heights,' and very, very unhappy endings would take place, so I changed my ideas completely and went in for the tragic, which I enjoyed.”

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.