Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature
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Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext Twelve stories with themes of heartbreak and the sadness of women aging. A subtle and passionate collection. Zusammenfassung Winner of the Nobel Prize in LiteratureThe characters who populate an Alice Munro story live and breathe.

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Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature
'Witty, subtle, passionate, The Moons of Jupiter is exceptionally knowledgeable about the content and movement - the entanglements and entailments - of individual human feeling. And the knowledge it offers can't be looked up elsewhere' New York Times

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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.

Klappentext

Twelve stories with themes of heartbreak and the sadness of women aging. A subtle and passionate collection.

Zusammenfassung
Winner of the Nobel Prize in LiteratureThe characters who populate an Alice Munro story live and breathe.