Alice Munro

Alice Munro (1931–2024) was a Canadian short-story writer, widely considered the greatest living master of the form, and the winner of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Literature. Her collections, including Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage and Runaway, rendered the homely duress of small-town Ontario life with extraordinary psychological precision.

Munro published only short fiction — fourteen collections over half a century — and built a singular voice out of the everyday: love, class, age, and the immense drama compressed into a single turn of a door. Praised by a generation of writers as the finest living master of the story, "Her Nobel citation praised her as a master of the contemporary short story, and her worldwide readership confirmed her supreme place in the language.