Justina Elias says she didn't know about the connection legendary Canadian writer Alice Munro had to the Victoria, B.C., bookstore that bears her name, but she quickly found out.
Nobel Prize winner and author Alice Munro , regarded as the master of the short story, died Monday at 92. Although a long-time resident of Ontario, Munro had a considerable, and one could say a storied, connection with Vancouver Island. Kylie Stanton reports.Elias, who runs the fiction section at Munro’s Books , said the “serendipity” of ending up working at a book store founded by the writer she idolized “never ceases to amaze me.
“I’ve read all of her work,” said Elias. “The first of hers that I read was ‘Miles City, Montana.’ I was 19 and I was in a short-fiction class in university trying to figure out what I wanted to do with my life. I remember being dazzled that you could do that in 20 pages. It changed my life. It shaped me as a person and a writer.
B.C. Health Minister Adrian Dix, an avid reader whose spouse, Renee Saklikar, is a poet, said Munro is one of Canada’s greatest writers whose stories “have been transformative for many people.”“Anyone who loves books. Anyone who reads books. Anyone who writes books,” he said. “Anyone who loves literature in this country, loves Alice Munro.”
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