Alice Munro

Alice Munro: Canadians everywhere are standing taller with the news on Thursday Alice Munro has won the Nobel Prize for literature. It goes without saying a Nobel being awarded to a Canadian polishes the national brand, but it should be emphasized the accomplishment is very much hers and not ours. , according to Winnipeg Free Press. The protagonists of her stories, published in some 15 collections since 1968, are typically women from small-town southern Ontario, women of genteel poverty who make small choices that echo throughout their lives. Munro's language, while always precise, is at the service of character and psychology. Not to discount her formal innovations of structure and point of view, Munro eschews flash. She does not beg for readers; they must come to her. CP Related Items Articles Sales surge for new Nobel literature winner, Canadian author Alice Munro Author's win a new chapter in her career Munro first Canadian woman to receive Nobel for literature Munro's works well-known to city academics Poll How many Alice Munro short stories have you read? More than five Fewer than five None View Results Munro, 82, has remained committed to her commercially dubious genre, the short story, for more than 50 years. This while most of her colleagues in the trenches of literature chased fame and fortune via the novel. But Munro's real genius lies not in her steady focus but in her rare ability to locate the universal in the particular. Like Jane Austen or George Eliot before her, her canvas has been the daily concerns of average people in parochial settings. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.