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Short stories for seniors printable1/28/2024 Munro's writing has established her as "one of our greatest contemporary writers of fiction", or, as Cynthia Ozick put it, "our Chekhov." Munro has received many literary accolades, including the 2013 Nobel Prize in Literature for her work as "master of the contemporary short story", and the 2009 Man Booker International Prize for her lifetime body of work. Her stories explore human complexities in an uncomplicated prose style. Munro's fiction is most often set in her native Huron County in southwestern Ontario. ![]() Her stories have been said to "embed more than announce, reveal more than parade." Munro's work has been described as revolutionizing the architecture of short stories, especially in its tendency to move forward and backward in time. ![]() Alice Ann Munro ( / m ə n ˈ r oʊ/ née Laidlaw / ˈ l eɪ d l ɔː/ born 10 July 1931) is a Canadian short story writer who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2013.
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