![]() Then there is her laughter, frequent and joyous and subversive.Īlice Laidlaw was born on July 10, 1931, just outside Wingham, Ontario the town and its surroundings have been a constant in her work (renamed Jubilee, or perhaps Hanratty). But in life she is true to the voice of her fiction - restrained, observant, unpretentious, valuing directness and honesty. But she's quite self-effacing physically," says Claire Tomalin, who, as a Booker judge in 1980, made it a personal crusade that Munro should be shortlisted and met her then. "Writers often feel obliged to adopt some sort of public appearance. People tend to be surprised at how normal Munro is in person. Munro is often called the best living writer of short stories in English the words "short story" are frequently dropped. For a long time Alice Munro has been compared with Chekhov John Updike would add Tolstoy, and AS Byatt would say Guy de Maupassant and Flaubert. ![]() ![]() And while these things have perhaps made her less well known than she should be, and the predictable sods have been flung - that her concerns are domestic, narrow, regional, dated, that she only writes short stories - hers is a story of triumph over such petty assumptions. S he writes of turkey gutting and fox farming, of trees felled in the Ontario wilderness, of harsh country schools and lingering illnesses, of familiar violence and obscure shame, and above all, of the lives of girls and women. ![]()
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