Alice Munro

1931–2024

Canadian short-story writer whose fiction is mostly set in small towns of south-western Ontario. She studied English and journalism at the University of Western Ontario. Her first collection, Dance of the Happy Shades (1968), won the Governor General’s Award, as did two later books, and Lives of Girls and Women (1971) was her only novel. Later collections include The Progress of Love, Runaway and Dear Life. She won the Man Booker International Prize in 2009 and the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2013, and died in May 2024. The Beggar Maid was shortlisted for the 1980 Booker Prize.

Timeline of Alice Munro’s life

Works

• The Beggar Maid (1978)

Prizes

• The Beggar Maid — The Booker Prize 1980: Shortlist