“Mothers and daughters generally have fairly complex relationships, and ours was made much more so by Mother's illness. She had Parkinson's disease, which was not diagnosed for a long time... All that made me very self-protective, because for one thing, I didn't want to get trapped.”

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.