Remembering Alice Munro ‹ Literary Hub

Alice Munro, beloved Canadian writer, Nobel Prize winner, and undisputed grasp of the quick story, died on Monday at her dwelling in Ontario, on the age of 92.

For a few years, Munro has been nearly universally celebrated for her quick tales, which are usually structurally creative and psychologically astute, that includes the advanced lives of characters rendered in exact prose. “With Alice it’s like a shorthand,” Richard Ford as soon as mentioned. “You’ll simply point out her, and all people simply form of typically nods that she’s simply type of pretty much as good because it will get.” Her first assortment, Dance of the Pleased Shades, was revealed in 1968; her final quantity of recent work, Expensive Life, was revealed in 2012, and was (we thought, not less than) among the finest collections of the last decade.

In 2013, Munro was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, for her mastery of the up to date quick story and her skill to “accommodate the complete epic complexity of the novel in only a few quick pages,” a willpower that was met with pleasure and approval from the English-speaking literary world. “All it’s important to do these days is write a number of half-decent tales and you might be ‘our Chekhov,’” James Wooden wrote on the time. “However Alice Munro actually is our Chekhov—which is to say, the English language’s Chekhov.” She might be missed.

For extra on Munro’s life and legacy, learn on.

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