“While working on my first five books, I kept wishing I was writing a novel. I thought until you wrote a novel, you weren't taken seriously as a writer. It used to trouble me a lot, but nothing troubles me now, and besides, there has been a change. I think short stories are taken more seriously now than they were.”

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.