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Alice Munro

1931 - 2024

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Alice Ann Munro ( mən-ROH; née Laidlaw LAYD-law; 10 July 1931 – 13 May 2024) was a Canadian short story writer who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2013. Her work tends to move forward and backward in time, with integrated short story cycles. Munro's fiction is most often set in her native Huron County in southwestern Ontario. Her stories explore human complexities in a simple but meticulous prose style. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Alice Munro is the 554th most popular writer (down from 390th in 2019), the 26th most popular biography from Canada (down from 12th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Canadian Writer.

Alice Munro is a Canadian short story writer who has won the Nobel Prize in Literature. She is most famous for her short stories, which are often about ordinary people and their lives.

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Among writers, Alice Munro ranks 554 out of 7,302Before her are Miguel Ángel Asturias, Rudaki, Madame de La Fayette, Anaïs Nin, Camilo José Cela, and Robert A. Heinlein. After her are Yunus Emre, Henry IV of Castile, Matilde Camus, Elie Wiesel, Anthony Burgess, and Tom Clancy.

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Among people born in 1931, Alice Munro ranks 32Before her are Don King, Sofia Gubaidulina, Anatoly Dyatlov, Burton Richter, Annie Girardot, and Johannes Rau. After her are Leonard Nimoy, D. B. Cooper, Anne Bancroft, Ian Holm, James Earl Jones, and João Gilberto. Among people deceased in 2024, Alice Munro ranks 34Before her are Thomas P. Stafford, Roger Guillemin, Jim Simons, Leon Cooper, Herbert Kroemer, and Dési Bouterse. After her are Olivia Hussey, James Earl Jones, Vittorio Emanuele, Prince of Naples, Quincy Jones, Marisa Paredes, and Bengt I. Samuelsson.

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In Canada

Among people born in Canada, Alice Munro ranks 26 out of 1,622Before her are Glenn Gould (1932), Margaret Atwood (1939), Saul Bellow (1915), Marshall McLuhan (1911), Richard E. Taylor (1929), and David Cronenberg (1943). After her are Pierre Trudeau (1919), Bertram Brockhouse (1918), Ralph M. Steinman (1943), Eric Berne (1910), David Johnston (1941), and Frederick Banting (1891).

Among WRITERS In Canada

Among writers born in Canada, Alice Munro ranks 4Before her are Lucy Maud Montgomery (1874), Margaret Atwood (1939), and Saul Bellow (1915). After her are A. E. van Vogt (1912), David Morrell (1943), Robin Sharma (1965), Brian Tracy (1944), Antonine Maillet (1929), Shulamith Firestone (1945), E. Pauline Johnson (1861), and Harold Russell (1914).