Alice Munro

Alice Munro is a Canadian author of short stories. She is credited with revolutionizing the short story. Munro sets most of her stories in Huron County, Ontario, where she is from. She is known for exploring the complexities of people with prose that is not too rich and easy to read. Munro has won numerous awards of the course of her near-50 year career, most notably the Governor General’s Award (3x), the Giller Prize (2x), the Man Booker International Prize and the Nobel Prize in Literature.