Alice Munro

Alice Munro is the author of thirteen short story collections and one novel. She has won numerous prizes and awards, including the International Man Booker Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Governor General's Award. She was awarded the 2013 Nobel Prize for Literature.

'Munro changed our sense of what the short story can do as radically as Chekhov … she penetrates in words into the hidden roots of how we choose to live, and why we act' New Yorker