Alice Munro is the author of thirteen collections of stories including Dear Life, Runaway, and Too Much Happiness as well as a novel, Lives of Girls and Women. Among the many awards and prizes she received are three Governor General s Literary Awards and two Giller Prizes in Canada; the Rea Award; the Lannan Literary Award; the National Book Critics Circle Award; and the International Booker Prize. Her stories have appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The Paris Review, and other publications, and her collections have been translated into thirteen languages. She was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2013. Alice Munro died in 2024.
