Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature

The brilliant new collection of stories by the winner of the 2009 Man Booker International Prize

Winner of the Nobel Prize in LiteratureAlice Munro captures the essence of life in her brilliant new collection of stories. Moments of change, chance encounters, the twist of fate that leads a person to a new way of thinking or being: the stories in Dear Life build to form a radiant, indelible portrait of just how dangerous and strange ordinary life can be.

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Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature

The brilliant new collection of stories by the winner of the 2009 Man Booker International Prize

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Alice Munro was born in 1931 and was the author of thirteen collections of stories and the novel, Lives of Girls and Women. She received many awards and prizes, including three of Canada's Governor General's Literary Awards and two Giller Prizes, the Rea Award for the Short Story, the Lannan Literary Award, the WHSmith Book Award in the UK, the National Book Critics Circle Award in the US, was shortlisted for the Booker Prize for Who Do You Think You Are? (previously published as The Beggar Maid), and was awarded the Man Booker International Prize 2009 for her overall contribution to fiction on the world stage, and in 2013 she won the Nobel Prize in Literature. Her stories have appeared in the New Yorker, Atlantic Monthly, Paris Review and other publications, and her collections have been translated into thirteen languages. Alice Munro died in 2024.

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Paperback edition of the latest collection of tales from the critically acclaimed Canadian short story writer. Includes 14 new stories, suffused with Munro's clarity of vision. The stories build to form a radiant, indelible portrait of just how dangerous ordinary life can be. 'Alice Munro has a strong claim to being the best fiction writer now living in North America' Jonathan Franzen