(Bloomberg) -- Alice Munro, the Canadian writer whose collections of short stories about the struggles of everyday people won her the Nobel Prize ... The first Canadian to win the literary honor ...

The Canadian writer was described as a "master of the contemporary story" when receiving the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2013. Alice Munro, the Nobel Prize-winning Canadian author who explored ...

Alice Munro ... for all that Alice Munro has left behind.” Considered by many to be the finest short fiction writer of her generation, Munro was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature in 2013 ...

Many fanciful theories are circulating to explain how Alice Munro, a Canadian writer from a ... attention to herself in any obvious way — came to win the most coveted award in world literature, the ...

The first writer with a clearly Canadian identity, Alice Munro was the second writer of Canadian descent to win the Nobel literature prize. In addition, she was the recipient of two Giller Prizes ...

Upon the announcement of Munro’s Nobel win in 2013, critic James Wood ... half-decent stories and you are ‘our Chekhov.’ But Alice Munro really is our Chekhov — which is to say, the ...

"Alice Munro was captivated with everyday life in ... She was the first lifelong Canadian to win the Nobel, and the first recipient cited exclusively for short fiction. Echoing the judgement ...

Nobel Prize-winning Canadian writer Alice Munro, whose exquisitely crafted tales ... She was the second Canadian-born writer to win the Nobel literature prize but the first with a distinctly ...