What is Alice Munro?
{{Use dmy dates|date=October 2013}} {{Nobelprize|Literature}} {{Infobox writer | name = Alice Munro | image =<!-- please discuss inclusion of amateur photo on talk page: Alice Munro teikna av Andreas Vartdal cc-by-sa ).jpg --> | alt = | caption = Munro in 2006 | pseudonym = | birth_name = Alice Ann Laidlaw | birth_date = {{Birth date|df=y|1931|7|10}} | birth_place = [[Wingham, Ontario|Wingham]], [[Ontario]], [[Canada]] | death_date = {{death date and age|df=y|2024|5|13|1931|7|10}} | death_place = [[Port Hope, Ontario|Port Hope]], Ontario, Canada | resting_place = | occupation = Author | language = English | nationality = Canadian | ethnicity = | citizenship = Canada | education = | alma_mater = [[University of Western Ontario]]<ref name=HappyShadesVintage1998>Preface. [[Dance of the Happy Shades]]. Alice Munro. First Vintage contemporaries Edition, August 1998. {{ISBN|0-679-78151-X}} [[Vintage Books]], A Division of [[Random House|Random House, Inc.]] [[New York City]].</ref> | period = | genre = [[Short stories]] | subject = | movement = | notableworks = | spouse = James Munro (1951–1972)<br />Gerald Fremlin (1976–2013, his death) | partner = | children = 3 | relatives = | awards = [[Governor General's Awards|Governor General's Award]] (1968, 1978, 1986)<br/>[[Scotiabank Giller Prize|Giller Prize]] (1998, 2004)<br>[[Man Booker International Prize]] (2009)<br/>[[Nobel Prize in Literature]] (2013) | signature = | signature_alt = | module = | website = <!-- www.example.com --> }} '''Alice Ann Munro''' (10 July 1931 &ndash; 13 May 2024) was a [[Canadians|Canadian]] writer of [[short stories]]. Munro received the [[Nobel Prize in Literature]] in 2013.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/dec/06/alice-munro-interview-nobel-prize-short-story-literature|title=Nobel prizewinner Alice Munro: 'It's a wonderful thing for the short story'|first=Lisa|last=Allardice|date=6 December 2013|publisher=|via=www.theguardian.com}}</ref> In her stories Munro has changed the way people write short stories. Her stori