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Swedish Academy Short Story Nobel Prize

Alice Munro was a renowned Canadian short story writer who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2013. Her work was praised for its precise imagery and narrative style that revealed complex emotional lives through everyday characters and settings often drawn from her childhood in Ontario. Munro persevered as a writer despite rejections and family responsibilities, and her first collection Dance of the Happy Shades was published in 1968, going on to win awards. Lives of Girls and Women developed stories of coming-of-age that captured the social milieu of southwestern Ontario.

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Swedish Academy Short Story Nobel Prize

Alice Munro was a renowned Canadian short story writer who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2013. Her work was praised for its precise imagery and narrative style that revealed complex emotional lives through everyday characters and settings often drawn from her childhood in Ontario. Munro persevered as a writer despite rejections and family responsibilities, and her first collection Dance of the Happy Shades was published in 1968, going on to win awards. Lives of Girls and Women developed stories of coming-of-age that captured the social milieu of southwestern Ontario.

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Alice Munro, original name Alice Ann Laidlaw, (born July 10, 1931, Wingham, Ontario,

Canada), Canadian short-story writer who gained international recognition with her exquisitely
drawn narratives. The Swedish Academy dubbed her a “master of the contemporary short story”
when it awarded her the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2013. Munro’s work was noted for its
precise imagery and narrative style, which is at once lyrical, compelling, economical, and
intense, revealing the depth and complexities in the emotional lives of everyday people.
Munro was raised on what she called “this collapsing enterprise of a fox and mink farm, just
beyond the most disreputable part of town.” Her mother, a teacher, played a significant role in
her life, as did her great-aunt and her grandmother. She attended the University of Western
Ontario but left after two years of studying English and journalism. At age 20, in 1951, she
married her first husband, James Munro, and moved to Vancouver. She moved again in 1963
to Victoria, where the couple started a bookstore and together raised three daughters. After her
first marriage ended in 1972, she returned to Ontario and settled in Clinton, near her childhood
home, where she lived with her second husband (married 1976).
Munro had begun writing stories as a teenager, and she persevered in her attempt to establish
herself as a writer despite years of rejection from publishers and the limitations imposed on her
career by the responsibilities of marriage and motherhood. Her first collection of stories was
published as Dance of the Happy Shades (1968). It is one of three of her collections—the other
two being Who Do You Think You Are? (1978; also published as The Beggar Maid: Stories of
Flo and Rose) and The Progress of Love (1986)—awarded the annual Governor General’s
Literary Award for fiction. Lives of Girls and Women (1971) was conceived as a novel but
developed into a series of interrelated coming-of-age stories. Like much of her fiction, the tales
capture the social and cultural milieu of her native southwestern Ontario. Munro embraced the
mystery, intimacy, and tension of the ordinary lives of both men and women, rooted in the
uncharted and ambivalent landscape of what affectionately came to be known as “Munro
country.”

In genre studies, a coming-of-age story is a genre of literature, film, and video that focuses on
the growth of a protagonist from youth to adulthood ("coming of age"). Coming-of-age stories
tend to emphasize dialogue or internal monologue over action, and are often set in the past.
The subjects of coming-of-age stories are typically teenagers.[1] The Bildungsroman is a
specific subgenre of coming-of-age story.
In film, coming of age is a genre of teen films. Coming-of-age films focus on the psychological
and moral growth or transition of a protagonist from youth to adulthood. Personal growth and
change is an important characteristic of this genre, which relies on dialogue and emotional
responses, rather than action. The main character is typically male, around mid-teen and the
story is often told in the form of a flashback.[1

nitiation story may be said to show its young protagonist experiencing a significant change of
knowledge about the world or himself, or a change of character, or of both, and this change must
point or lead him towards an adult world. It may or may not contain some form of ritual, but it should
give some evidence that the change is at least likely to have permanent effects (
Great Depression, worldwide economic downturn that began in 1929 and lasted until about
1939. It was the longest and most severe depression ever experienced by the industrialized
Western world, sparking fundamental changes in economic institutions, macroeconomic policy,
and economic theory. Although it originated in the United States, the Great Depression caused
drastic declines in output, severe unemployment, and acute deflation in almost every country of
the world. Its social and cultural effects were no less staggering, especially in the United States,
where the Great Depression represented the harshest adversity faced by Americans since
the Civil War.

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