Opdag historien bag den elskede canadiske forfatter, der vandt Nobelprisen i litteratur og forbløffede verden med sine mesterværker. Læs videre for at få et indblik i Alice Munros arv og succes.
Alice Munro, en Nobelprisvindende forfatter af noveller, er gået bort i en alder af 92. Hun var kendt for sine mesterligt skrevne noveller og modtog adskillige prestigefulde priser i løbet af sin lange karriere. Hendes fortællinger blev anset for at være uden lige, en blanding af almindelige mennesker og ekstraordinære temaer. Munro blev ofte sammenlignet med forfattere som Anton Chekhov og John Cheever og opnåede en status sjælden for sin kunstart. Hendes publikationer har sat deres præg på litteraturverdenen og efterlader et varigt indtryk. Alice Munro annoncerede sin pensionering i 2013.
The Canadian writer was known for her masterfully crafted short stories. Throughout her long career, she earned a number of prestigious awards including the ...
Her stories were widely considered to be without equal, a mixture of ordinary people and extraordinary themes.
Often ranked with Anton Chekhov, John Cheever and a handful of other short story writers, author Alice Munro achieved stature rare for an art form ...
Nobel Prize-winning Canadian writer Alice Munro, whose exquisitely crafted tales of the loves, ambitions and travails of small-town women in her native land ...
Alice Munro, the Nobel and prize-winning Canadian author of short story collections, has died. She was 92.
Acclaimed for her accounts of the darkness and desire found in everyday life, 'the Canadian Chekhov' has died, having suffered from dementia for more than a ...
Alice Munro, Canadian author who won the Nobel Prize in Literature, has died at the age of 92.
Often ranked with ...
Munro died Monday in Ontario. A spokesman for U.S. publisher Alfred A. Knopf confirmed her death. Munro was 92 years old. She announced her retirement in 2013.
A spokesperson for publisher Penguin Random House Canada said Munro, winner of the Nobel literary prize in 2013, died Monday at home in Port Hope, Ontario.
Alice Munro has died at 92. The renowned Canadian short-story writer won the 2013 Nobel Prize in Literature and the 2009 Man Booker International Prize for ...
Canadian short-story writer who won the Nobel prize in 2013 and was often likened to Chekhov and Guy de Maupassant.
The Canadian writer's works of short fiction illuminated seemingly ordinary lives.
Margaret Atwood cried when she first read this story, because “it was so well done”. “Spinster” Miss Marsalles, piano teacher to generations of children in the ...
Munro wrote short stories for more than 60 years, often focusing on life in rural Canada. She died at her home in Port Hope, Ontario on Monday night, her family ...
Alice Munro, beloved Canadian author, Nobel Prize winner, and undisputed master of the short story, died on Monday at her home in Ontario, at the age of 92.
Deborah Treisman writes about her experience working with the short-story writer Alice Munro, who died on May 13, 2024, at the age of ninety-two.
Munro died at her home in Port Hope, Ontario, publisher Kristin Cochrane, chief executive officer of McClelland & Stewart, said in a statement on Tuesday. Keep ...
Often ranked with ...
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Ellie Eberlee reflects on a momentous loss for the international literary community, and for the world at large....
Despite being a bookish Canadian with pretensions of being a writer, I resisted invitations and entreatments alike to read anything by—so I was told—our ...
A fellow short story writer recalls some favorites by Munro, and wonders at the way they leaped through time.
Novelist and poet Heather O'Neill reflects on how Alice Munro characters follow desire to escape mundane, predictable lives.
The Nobel prizewinning short-story writer died on May 13th, aged 92 | Culture.
Novelist and poet Heather O'Neill reflects on how the tension in Munro's stories lies in the moment a woman's longing will release her from her mundane ...
It was the early aughts, during a summer course at the Humber School for Writers. The instructor was John Metcalf, who had worked closely with, ...