Questão 54 - UECE Específicas 2 Fase 1 Dia 2025/1

                   Alice Munro

 

[1]     Alice Munro (born July 10, 1931, 
Wingham, Ontario, Canada—died May 13, 
2024, Port Hope, Ontario) was a Canadian 
short-story writer who gained international 
[5] recognition with her exquisitely drawn 
narratives. The Swedish Academy dubbed her a 
“master of the contemporary short story” 
when it awarded her the Nobel Prize for 
Literature in 2013. Munro’s work is noted for 
[10] its precise imagery and narrative style, which is

at once lyrical, compelling, economical, and 
intense, revealing the depth and complexities 
in the emotional lives of everyday people. 

    Munro was raised on what she called 
[15] “this collapsing enterprise of 
a fox and mink farm, just beyond the most 
disreputable part of town.” Her mother, a 
teacher, played a significant role in her life, as 
did her great-aunt and her grandmother. She 
[20] attended the University of Western Ontario but 
left after two years of studying English and 
journalism. At age 20, in 1951, she married her 
first husband, James Munro, and moved 
to Vancouver. She moved again in 1963, 
[25] to Victoria, where the couple started a 
bookstore and together raised three daughters. 
After her first marriage ended in 1972, she 
returned to Ontario and settled in Clinton, near 
her childhood home, where she lived with her 
[30] second husband (married 1976). 

    Munro had begun writing stories as a 
teenager, and she persevered in her attempt to 
establish herself as a writer despite years of 
rejection from publishers and the limitations 
[35] imposed on her career by the responsibilities 
of marriage and motherhood. Her first 
collection of stories was published as Dance of 
the Happy Shades (1968). It is one of three of 
her collections—the other two being Who Do 
[40] You Think You Are? (1978; also published 
as The Beggar Maid: Stories of Flo and Rose) 
and The Progress of Love (1986)—awarded the 
annual Governor General’s Literary Award for 
fiction. Lives of Girls and Women (1971) was 
[45] conceived as a novel but developed into a 
series of interrelated coming-of-age stories. 
Like much of her fiction, the tales capture the 
social and cultural milieu of her native 
southwestern Ontario. Munro embraced the 
[50] mystery, intimacy, and tension of the ordinary 
lives of both men and women, rooted in the 
uncharted and ambivalent landscape of what 
affectionately came to be known as “Munro 
country.” 

[55]    Her later volumes include Something 
I’ve Been Meaning to Tell You (1974), The 
Moons of Jupiter (1982), Friend of My 
Youth (1990), A Wilderness Station (1994), 
and The Love of a Good Woman (1998). The 
[60] latter volume received 
both Canada’s esteemed Giller Prize (later the 
Scotiabank Giller Prize) and the National Book 
Critics Circle Award in the U.S. Her book Open 
Secrets (1994) contains stories that range in 
[65] setting from the semicivilized hills of southern 
Ontario to the mountains of Albania. 
In Runaway (2004) Munro explores the depths

of ordinary lives through the use of temporal 
shifts and realistically rendered reminiscences; 
[70] it also was awarded the Giller Prize. The View 
from Castle Rock (2007) combines history, 
family memoir, and fiction into narratives of 
questionable inquiries and obscure replies. In 
2009 Munro won the Man Booker International 
[75] Prize; that same year she published the short
story collection Too Much Happiness. 

    Like much of her oeuvre, the stories 
in Dear Life (2012) were unified by 
examinations of sex, love, and death. Four of 
[80] the stories in the collection were explicitly 
framed as fictionalized autobiography meant 
to encapsulate the aging Munro’s feelings 
about her life. She told an interviewer 
that Dear Life, her 14th collection, would be 
[85] her last. She issued several compilations of 
previously published material, 
including Selected Stories (1996) and Family 
Furnishings: Selected Stories, 1995-
2014 (2014). 

[90]    Munro’s short story about the 
domestic erosions of Alzheimer disease, “The 
Bear Came over the Mountain,” originally 
published in Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, 
Loveship, Marriage (2001), was made into the 
[95] critically acclaimed film Away from Her (2006), 
directed by Sarah Polley and starring Julie 
Christie and Gordon Pinsent with Michael 
Murphy and Olympia Dukakis. Other 
film adaptations of Munro’s work 
[100] include Hateship Loveship (2013), which was 
based on the title story of her 2001 collection, 
and Almodóvar’s Julieta (2016), a mystery-
drama inspired by several stories in Runaway. 

    With the exception of Canadian-born 
[105] American author Saul Bellow (who won the 
prize in 1976), Munro was the first Canadian—
 as well as the 13th woman—to be named the 
Nobel literature laureate. 

Adapted from: https://www.britannica.com

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