Alice Munro (1931–2024)
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Over de Auteur
Alice Munro was born Alice Laidlaw in Wingham, Ontario on July 10, 1931. She published her first story, The Dimensions of a Shadow, while a student at the University of Western Ontario in 1950. She left the university in 1951 to get married and start a family. In 1972 she became Writer in Residence toon meer at the University of Western Ontario. Her first collection, Dance of the Happy Shades, was published in 1968 and won the Governor General's Award, Canada's highest literary prize. Her other works include Lives of Girls and Women, The View from Castle Rock, Something I've Been Meaning to Tell You, Too Much Happiness, and Dear Life. She has received several awards including the Governor General's Award for fiction for Who Do You Think You Are? and The Progress of Love, the Giller Prize for Runaway in 2004, the Man Booker International Prize in 2009 for her lifetime body of work, and the 2013 Nobel Prize in Literature. Her stories have appeared in numerous publications including The New Yorker, The Paris Review, and The Atlantic Monthly. Also, in 2013, her title Dear Life: Stories made The New York Times Best Seller List. (Bowker Author Biography) toon minder
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Werken van Alice Munro
Il ponte galleggiante - Ortiche 16 exemplaren
Julieta (Movie Tie-in Edition): Three Stories That Inspired the Movie (Vintage International) (2016) 14 exemplaren, 2 besprekingen
Nettles 4 exemplaren
Meneseteung 4 exemplaren
Child's Play 3 exemplaren
Boys and Girls 3 exemplaren
The Love of a Good Woman [short story] 3 exemplaren
How I Met My Husband 2 exemplaren
Lost in Transmission 2 exemplaren
Bardon Bus 2 exemplaren
Dimension 2 exemplaren
Prue [short story] 2 exemplaren
In fuga 1 exemplaar
Munro, Alice Archive 1 exemplaar
Leaving Maverley 1 exemplaar
Geen titel 1 exemplaar
Fugitives de Munro Alice (2009) Broché 1 exemplaar
Жребий; Лицо 1 exemplaar
Save the reaper 1 exemplaar
Trốn Chạy 1 exemplaar
Folio Magazine (December 1950); Story For Sunday 1 exemplaar
E SHTRENJTA JETE 1 exemplaar
Egy joravalo nö szerelme 1 exemplaar
Rare Antique FRIEND OF MY YOUTH Alice Munro NOBEL PRIZE 1st Edition First Printing STORIES 1 exemplaar
"The Peace of Utrecht" 1 exemplaar
Dimensiones (Flash Relatos) (Spanish Edition) 1 exemplaar
“Walker Brothers Cowboy” 1 exemplaar
Too Much Happiness: Stories 1 exemplaar
Rare Antique OPEN SECRETS Alice Munro 1st Edition NOBEL PRIZE Stories First Printing Fiction 1 exemplaar
Face 1 exemplaar
Nemico, amico, amante... (Super ET) 1 exemplaar
Fathers (short story) 1 exemplaar
Munro Alice 1 exemplaar
Stinkreich : eine Erzählung. 1 exemplaar
A Real Life 1 exemplaar
Silence [short story] 1 exemplaar
La visita (in Le lune di Giove) 1 exemplaar
Storie finite male (in Le lune di Giove) 1 exemplaar
Mrs Cross e Mrs Kidd (in Le lune di Giove) 1 exemplaar
Festa di fine estate (in Le lune di Giove) 1 exemplaar
L'incidente (in Le lune di Giove) 1 exemplaar
La stagione dei tacchini (in Le lune di Giove) 1 exemplaar
Dulse (in Le lune di Giove) 1 exemplaar
I Chaddeley e i Fleming (in Le lune di Giove) 1 exemplaar
The Albanian Virgin 1 exemplaar
Teddy Tum Tum's Boating Trip 1 exemplaar
Scary old sex: stories 1 exemplaar
Queenie [Short story] 1 exemplaar
The View from Castle Rock - short story 1 exemplaar
Train 1 exemplaar
Wilderness Station {short story} 1 exemplaar
Axis 1 exemplaar
Wood 1 exemplaar
Some Women 1 exemplaar
Free Radicals 1 exemplaar
Deep-Holes 1 exemplaar
Wenlock Edge 1 exemplaar
Colophon (in Troppa felicità) 1 exemplaar
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Tagged
Algemene kennis
- Officiële naam
- Laidlaw, Alice Anne
- Geboortedatum
- 1931-07-10
- Overlijdensdatum
- 2024-05-13
- Geslacht
- female
- Nationaliteit
- Canada
- Geboorteplaats
- Wingham, Ontario, Canada
- Plaats van overlijden
- Port Hope, Ontario, Canada (care home)
- Oorzaak van overlijden
- complications of dementia
- Woonplaatsen
- Wingham, Ontario, Canada
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
Clinton, Ontario, Canada
Comox, British Columbia, Canada - Opleiding
- University of Western Ontario
- Beroepen
- bookstore owner
short story writer
novelist - Relaties
- Munro, Sheila (daughter)
Gibson, Douglas (editor) - Organisaties
- Munro's Books
- Prijzen en onderscheidingen
- Nobelprijs voor Literatuur (2013)
CBA Libris Award ( [2005])
CBA Libris Award ( [1999])
PEN/Malamud Award (1997)
Lannan Literary Award ( [1995])
CBA Libris Award ( [1995]) (toon alle 9)
Lorne Pierce Medal (1993)
Molson Prize (1990)
Marian Engel Award (1986) - Agent
- William Loverd
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Alice Munro in Folio Society Devotees (mei 20)
March 2015: Alice Munro in Monthly Author Reads (juli 2015)
Three Cheers for Alice Munro! in Canadian Bookworms (oktober 2013)
Alice Munro in Book talk (oktober 2013)
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