Munro is only the thirteenth woman to win the prize since its inception in 1901. The Nobel Foundation said they had been unable to reach her and had left a message on her phone. Photo: Reuters ...

Nobel laureate Alice Munro, the Canadian literary giant ... of the Governor General’s Award and a two-time winner of the Giller Prize. Munro was a short story writer by choice, and, apparently ...

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Munro, who was awarded the prize of 8 million crowns (783.45 thousand pounds) by the committee, lives in Clinton, not far from her childhood home in south-western Ontario, Canada.

The youngest daughter of acclaimed Canadian Nobel laureate Alice Munro has said that her step-father sexually assaulted her as a child, and that her mother stayed with him even after learning of ...

how she chose to protect her abuser husband over her daughter. Nobel Prize in Literature notwithstanding, Alice Munro leaves behind an ugly legacy.

January 3, 2025 • Rachel Aviv reports on the terrible conundrum of Alice Munro for The New Yorker. Munro was a winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature and perhaps the most acclaimed writer of ...