
WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE® IN LITERATURE 2013 Vintage Readers are a perfect introduction to some of the greatest modern writers presented in attractive, accessible paperback editions. “In Munro’s hands, as in Chekhov’s, a short story is more than big enough to hold the world—and to astonish us again and again.” — Chicago Tribune In an unbroken procession of brilliant, revelatory short stories, Alice Munro has unfolded the wordless secrets that lie at the heart of all human experience. She has won three Governor General’s Literary Awards in her native Canada, as well as the National Book Critics Circle Award. Vintage Munro includes stories from throughout her The title stories from her collections The Moons of Jupiter ; The Progress of Love ; Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage ; “Differently,” from Selected Stories, and “Carried Away,” from Open Secrets .
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Alice Ann Munro, née Laidlaw, is a Canadian short-story writer who is widely considered one of the world's premier fiction writers. Munro is a three-time winner of Canada's Governor General's Award for fiction. Her stories focus on human relationships looked at through the lens of daily life. She has thus been referred to as "the Canadian Chekhov." She is the winner of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Literature. (Arabic: أليس مونرو) (Persian: آلیس مانرو) (Russian Cyrillic: Элис Манро) (Ukrainian Cyrillic: Еліс Манро) (Bulgarian Cyrillic: Алис Мънро) (Slovak: Alice Munroová) (Serbian: Alis Manro)