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Alice Munro
Wrote almost nothing but short stories, set mostly in one corner of southwestern Ontario, and won the Nobel.
Life story
- July 10, 1931 · Wingham, Ontario
Born at Wingham in Huron County - 1963 · Victoria, British Columbia
Opened Munro's Books in Victoria with her first husband - 1968 · Toronto
Won the Governor General's Award for Dance of the Happy Shades - 1975 · Clinton, Ontario
Returned to Huron County, the setting of most of her work - October 10, 2013 · Stockholm, Sweden
Won the Nobel Prize in Literature, the first Canadian to do so - May 13, 2024 · Port Hope, Ontario
Died at Port Hope, Ontario