Alice Munro
Autor(a) de Runaway
About the Author
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 mostrar mais 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) mostrar menos
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Séries
Obras por Alice Munro
Il ponte galleggiante - Ortiche 15 exemplares
Julieta (Movie Tie-in Edition): Three Stories That Inspired the Movie (Vintage International) (2016) 13 exemplares
Meneseteung 4 exemplares
Nettles 4 exemplares
The Love of a Good Woman [short story] 3 exemplares
Child's Play 3 exemplares
Too Much Happiness, Dance fo the Happy Shades, Lives of Girls and Women, Who do you Think you Are?, Moon of Jupiter,… 3 exemplares
Amundsen 3 exemplares
Dimension 2 exemplares
Corrie 2 exemplares
Lost in Transmission 2 exemplares
Boys and Girls 2 exemplares
Prue [short story] 2 exemplares
Fiction 2 exemplares
How I Met My Husband 2 exemplares
Bardon Bus 2 exemplares
El progreso del amor 1 exemplar
Rare Antique FRIEND OF MY YOUTH Alice Munro NOBEL PRIZE 1st Edition First Printing STORIES 1 exemplar
Rare Antique OPEN SECRETS Alice Munro 1st Edition NOBEL PRIZE Stories First Printing Fiction 1 exemplar
Sem título 1 exemplar
Leaving Maverley 1 exemplar
Жребий; Лицо 1 exemplar
“Walker Brothers Cowboy” 1 exemplar
Runaway -- First 1st Edition 1 exemplar
In fuga 1 exemplar
E SHTRENJTA JETE 1 exemplar
Egy joravalo nö szerelme 1 exemplar
Trốn Chạy 1 exemplar
Dear Life by Alice Munro (October 08,2013) 1 exemplar
Face 1 exemplar
Munro, Alice Archive 1 exemplar
Munro Alice 1 exemplar
Stinkreich : eine Erzählung. 1 exemplar
A Real Life 1 exemplar
Silence [short story] 1 exemplar
Fathers (short story) 1 exemplar
La visita (in Le lune di Giove) 1 exemplar
Storie finite male (in Le lune di Giove) 1 exemplar
Mrs Cross e Mrs Kidd (in Le lune di Giove) 1 exemplar
Festa di fine estate (in Le lune di Giove) 1 exemplar
L'incidente (in Le lune di Giove) 1 exemplar
Dulse (in Le lune di Giove) 1 exemplar
The Albanian Virgin 1 exemplar
Nemico, amico, amante... (Super ET) 1 exemplar
Teddy Tum Tum's Boating Trip 1 exemplar
Scary old sex: stories 1 exemplar
Queenie [Short story] 1 exemplar
Train 1 exemplar
Wilderness Station {short story} 1 exemplar
Axis 1 exemplar
Wood 1 exemplar
Some Women 1 exemplar
Free Radicals 1 exemplar
Deep-Holes 1 exemplar
Wenlock Edge 1 exemplar
Colophon (in Troppa felicità) 1 exemplar
Associated Works
Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama (1995) — Contribuidor, algumas edições — 904 exemplares
The Scribner Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction: Fifty North American American Stories Since 1970 (1999) — Contribuidor — 495 exemplares
You've Got to Read This: Contemporary American Writers Introduce Stories that Held Them in Awe (1994) — Contribuidor — 376 exemplares
First Fiction: An Anthology of the First Published Stories by Famous Writers (1994) — Contribuidor — 182 exemplares
In Another Part of the Forest: An Anthology of Gay Short Fiction (1994) — Contribuidor — 174 exemplares
More Stories We Tell: The Best Contemporary Short Stories by North American Women (2004) — Contribuidor — 63 exemplares
Literary Traveller: An Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction (1994) — Contribuidor — 53 exemplares
Jo's Girls: Tomboy Tales of High Adventure, True Grit, and Real Life (1997) — Contribuidor — 46 exemplares
The Oxford Book of Stories by Canadian Women in English (1999) — Autor, algumas edições — 29 exemplares
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Nome legal
- Laidlaw, Alice Anne
- Data de nascimento
- 1931-07-10
- Sexo
- female
- Nacionalidade
- Canada
- Local de nascimento
- Wingham, Ontario, Canada
- Locais de residência
- Wingham, Ontario, Canada
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
Clinton, Ontario, Canada
Comox, British Columbia, Canada - Educação
- University of Western Ontario
- Ocupações
- bookstore owner
short story writer
novelist - Relações
- Munro, Sheila (daughter)
- Organizações
- American Academy of Arts and Letters (Foreign Honorary, Literature, 1992)
- Prémios e menções honrosas
- Nobelprijs voor Literatuur (2013)
CBA Libris Award ( [2005])
CBA Libris Award ( [1999])
PEN/Malamud Award (1997)
Lannan Literary Award ( [1995])
CBA Libris Award ( [1995]) (mostrar todos 9)
Lorne Pierce Medal (1993)
Molson Prize (1990)
Marian Engel Award (1986) - Agente
- William Loverd
Membros
Discussions
March 2015: Alice Munro em Monthly Author Reads (Julho 2015)
Three Cheers for Alice Munro! em Canadian Bookworms (Outubro 2013)
Alice Munro em Book talk (Outubro 2013)
Críticas
Listas
to get (1)
Big Jubilee List (1)
100 New Classics (1)
2000s decade (1)
Booker Prize (1)
Female Author (3)
Canada (2)
Unread books (1)
Read These Too (1)
Favourite Books (1)
To Read (1)
Five star books (1)
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 133
- Also by
- 66
- Membros
- 26,679
- Popularidade
- #779
- Avaliação
- 3.9
- Críticas
- 692
- ISBN
- 863
- Línguas
- 31
- Marcado como favorito
- 191