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Born in Wingham, Ontario, a rural province and where the two largest cities of Canada are located. The socio-political context where she still lives contributed greatly to her writing and influences. Born in 1931, ideals of the time in which she grew up.

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short story reading with the pirate folk

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short story reading with the pirate folk

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'She tells us what it is to be a human being. She is wholly without cliché'

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'She tells us what it is to be a human being. She is wholly without cliché'

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She had 4 daughters, one who died the day of birth. Themes of motherhood and loss in writing.

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She had 4 daughters, one who died the day of birth. Themes of motherhood and loss in writing.

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'To explore such themes within the limitations of the short-story form with subtlety and depth is Munro's achievement'

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'To explore such themes within the limitations of the short-story form with subtlety and depth is Munro's achievement'

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- quoted by me

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Munro explores the distinctive gender roles found within the house versus outside it, as seen through the eyes of the young narrators

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Munro explores the distinctive gender roles found within the house versus outside it, as seen through the eyes of the young narrators

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main themes: memory, love, transience, death

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main themes: memory, love, transience, death

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"Munro has talked about ‘the complexity of things, the things within things’. It is her natural ability to describe the ‘shameless, marvellous, shattering absurdity’ of life, to express it in just the right way, to capture it in all its endless, shapeless strangeness, which makes her so good."

https://literature.britishcouncil.org/writer/alice-munro

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Nothing is wasted. Nothing is irrelevant. Every word glows. Munro is able to capture the shape and mood, the flavour of a life in 30 pages. She tells us what it is to be a human being. She is wholly without cliché.

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she was the first canadian citizen to win a nobel prize for lit

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she was the first canadian citizen to win a nobel prize for lit

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Some of her Scottish relatives were writers who got invited to the dinner parties of Sir Walter Scott, mainly to serve as buffoons.

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Some of her Scottish relatives were writers who got invited to the dinner parties of Sir Walter Scott, mainly to serve as buffoons.

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Her mother was irish and lived in Ontereo

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Her mother was irish and lived in Ontereo

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Dull, Simple, Amazing and Unfathomable: Short Stories of Alice Munro | Marlene Goldman | TEDxUTSC

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Munro sees herself as "a friendly person who is not very sociable."

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Munro sees herself as "a friendly person who is not very sociable."

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Alice Laidlaw was born on July 10, 1931, just outside Wingham, Ontario; the town and its surroundings have been a constant in her work (renamed Jubilee, or perhaps Hanratty). "I am intoxicated by this landscape, by the almost flat fields, the swamps, the hardwood bush, by the continental climate with its extravagant winters,"

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Munro taught creative writing at York University in Toronto in 1973, but quit because she hated her class, which was all male except for "one girl who hardly got to speak." She called their writing "incomprehensible and trite; they seemed intolerant of anything else."

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Munro taught creative writing at York University in Toronto in 1973, but quit because she hated her class, which was all male except for "one girl who hardly got to speak." She called their writing "incomprehensible and trite; they seemed intolerant of anything else."

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alice munro. more like. more like. more like alice. alice more like

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alice munro. more like. more like. more like alice. alice more like

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For a long time Alice Munro has been compared with Chekhov

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Munro is actually really normal in person. "Writers often feel obliged to adopt some sort of public appearance. But she's quite self-effacing physically," 

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Munro is actually really normal in person. "Writers often feel obliged to adopt some sort of public appearance. But she's quite self-effacing physically," 

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In university, Munro earned money by selling her blood, working at the library and in tobacco fields.

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In university, Munro earned money by selling her blood, working at the library and in tobacco fields.

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she decided to marry her second husband (an old friend) after meeting and drinking 3 martinis. #truelove

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she decided to marry her second husband (an old friend) after meeting and drinking 3 martinis. #truelove

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Her first book of short stories, Dance of the Happy Shades, was written over a 15-year span.

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She started writing as a teen, and tried to continue despite rejection from publishers and constraints of marriage and motherhood

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She started writing as a teen, and tried to continue despite rejection from publishers and constraints of marriage and motherhood

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Her worlds create a “strange mixture of physical freedom and emotional claustrophobia.”

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Her worlds create a “strange mixture of physical freedom and emotional claustrophobia.”

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She is partial to white wine, particularly sauvignon blanc

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She is partial to white wine, particularly sauvignon blanc

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due to economic growth after WW2, Ontario Canada in the 60's was productive and full of opportunity (says this website I just looked at) 

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due to economic growth after WW2, Ontario Canada in the 60's was productive and full of opportunity (says this website I just looked at) 

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 She admitted in an interview that she'd smoked marijuana before, but didn't say what she thought about it. 

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 She admitted in an interview that she'd smoked marijuana before, but didn't say what she thought about it. 

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When I was young it was Eudora Welty, Carson McCullers, Katherine Anne Porter, Flannery O'Connor, James Agee. Then Updike, Cheever, Joyce Carol Oates, Peter Taylor, and especially and forever, William Maxwell. Also William Trevor, Edna O'Brien, Richard Ford. These I would say are influences.

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When I was young it was Eudora Welty, Carson McCullers, Katherine Anne Porter, Flannery O'Connor, James Agee. Then Updike, Cheever, Joyce Carol Oates, Peter Taylor, and especially and forever, William Maxwell. Also William Trevor, Edna O'Brien, Richard Ford. These I would say are influences.

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Nobel Prize Winner Alice Munro on banning books: CBC Archives | CBC

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Alice Munro.                                                                  Born: July 10 1931, Wingham, Ontario.                                     Educated: 1949-51 University of Western Ontario.                       Married: 1951 James Munro, (three daughters, '53 Sheila, '57 Jenny, '66 Andrea); '76 Gerald Fremlin.   

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Alice Munro.                                                                  Born: July 10 1931, Wingham, Ontario.                                     Educated: 1949-51 University of Western Ontario.                       Married: 1951 James Munro, (three daughters, '53 Sheila, '57 Jenny, '66 Andrea); '76 Gerald Fremlin.   