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Altres llibres d’Alice Munro en anglès a Biblioteques de Barcelona: - Dear life : stories. New York : Vintage International, 2013 - Lives of girls and women. New York : Vintage, 2001 - The Love of a good woman : stories. New York: Vintage, 1999 - Lying under the apple tree : new selected stories. New York : Vintage, 2014 - Open secrets. London : Vintage Books, 1995 - The Progress of love / Alice Munro . Death by landscape / Margaret Atwood. Barcelona : Pons, DL 2010 - Runaway : stories. New York : Vintage International, 2005 - Selected stories. London : Vintage, 2010 - Too much happiness. London : Chatto & Windus, 2009 - The View from Castle Rock : stories. London : Chatto & Windus, 2006

Biblioteca Camp de l’Arpa-Caterina Albert Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage Alice Munro Data comentari: 9 febrer 2017 Hora: 19 hs Conductora: Pauline Ernest

THE AUTHOR Alice Munro is a Canadian author who was born in 1931. She began writing stories when she was a teenager and her first short story collection 'Dance of the Happy Shades' was published in 1968 and won the Governor General's Award, then Canada's highest literary prize. That success was followed by Lives of Girls and Women (1971), a collection of interlinked stories, and in 1978 her collection Who Do You Think You Are? earned Munro a second Governor General's Literary Award.

Since the 1980s, Munro has published a short-story collection at least once every four years, most recently in 2001, 2004, 2006, 2009, and 2012. First versions of her stories have appeared in journals such as The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, Harper's Magazine and The Paris Review and her work has been translated into many different languages.

Munro is now generally recognised as one of the great contemporary writers of fiction and she is often referred to as “the Canadian Chekhov”. She won the 2009 Man Booker International Prize for her lifetime body of work and also the 2013 Nobel Prize in Literature for her work as "master of the contemporary short story", She was the first Canadian to ever win this prize.

Her stories are often set in small town environments, like Huron County in Ontario, where she lives. They explore human complexities in an uncomplicated prose style, showing how people's struggle for a decent life can often result in difficult relationships and moral conflict.

Her work has been described as having revolutionized the architecture of short stories, especially in the way that it effortlessly moves forward and backward in time. She has been especially commended for her ability to describe these subtle shifts in time, sometimes across decades; the ability to convey an entire life in a few pages; and the exploration of complex truths in uncomplicated language.

HATESHIP, FRIENDSHIP, COURTSHIP, LOVESHIP, MARRIAGE Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage is the title story of a book of nine short stories published in 2001. The collection was a National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction Finalist, was included in the New York Times and TIME Magazine lists of Best Fiction Books, and received the LA Times Book Prize for Fiction.

Some links to different websites about Alice Munro and her work: 

Alice Munro, In Her Own Words: 2013 Nobel Prize in Literature : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgKC_SDhOKk (an interview).

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Alice Munro in the British Council Literature website : http://literature.britishcouncil.org/alice-munro

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Munro’s website : http://alicemunro.ca/ (interesting ‘press’ links).

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Some stories published in The New Yorker : http://www.newyorker.com/contributors/alice-munro (to read more).