Nobel Prize-winning Canadian author Alice Munro attends a ceremony held by the Royal Canadian Mint to celebrate her win where they unveiled a 99.99% pure silver five-dollar coin at the Great Victoria Public Library in Victoria, B.C., Monday, March 24, 2014.
Alice Munro died on May 13, 2024 at the age of 92. CBC Books connected with Canadian authors who wished to pay their respects to the legendary Canadian author.Alice Munro, a Canadian author who was revered worldwide as master of the short story and who won the Nobel Prize for Literature,The prolific author leaves behind a strong literary legacy — along with many Canadian authors who were inspired by her and her work.Heather O'Neill is a novelist and short story writer from Montreal.
"I don't write short stories — not that many, at least — because of Alice Munro. Reading her work, I know that I am not good enough, not patient enough, not aware enough. I appreciate the greater margin of error in novel-writing."But what I've taken from her fiction is how 'every short story is at least two stories,' the way events in a character's present-day situation can bring to surface a story from the past.
When I first encountered Munro's stories as a teenager, I saw instantly that she was inhabiting the same place where I grew up."Houses dark but for a single light from a second-floor bedroom, unattended children whispering together in weed-ridden yards, single men sitting on rooming house porches looking out at passersby with longing, or nostalgia, or menace. I recognized my town in reading Alice Munro more profoundly than in any photograph or history or map.
Chanel M. Sutherland is a writer and product marketing director living in Montreal. She was born in St. Vincent and the Grenadines and moved to Canada when she was 10 years old. She holds a BA in English literature from Concordia University. She is currently working on a collection of interconnected short stories that explore the complex relationships and experiences of life in a small Caribbean village.
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