Alice Ann Munro
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Alice Ann Munro
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ALICE ANN MUNRO (Wingham, 1931 - Port Hope, 2024)
(ENGLISH)
Alice Munro was a prominent Canadian writer who won the Nobel Literature Prize in 2013.
Daughter of a farmer and a school teacher, she started to write when she was a teenager and while studying English and journalism at Western Ontario University.
In 1950 she published her first work, a short story entitled The Dimensions of a Shadow. Later on, when she was in her thirties, she wrote tales to be broadcasted on the Canadian Radio.
The common factor of all her short stories is a depiction of normal people’s everyday lives in Canada. In fact, Munro’s style reminds some critics of Chejov’s way of writing.
The Swedish Academy declared she was awarded the Nobel Prize because of her harmonious style, full of clarity and psychological realism.
It is worth mentioning that she won The Governor General’s Literary Award three times, with Dance of the Happy Shades (1968), Who Do You Think You Are? (1978) and The Progress of Love (1986).
ALICE ANN MUNRO (Wingham, 1931 - Port Hope, 2024)
(GALEGO)
Alice Munro foi unha destacada escritora canadense que gañou o Premio Nobel de Literatura en 2013.
Filla dun granxeiro e dunha mestra de escola, comezou a escribir na adolescencia e durante os seus estudos de lingua inglesa e xornalismo na Western Ontario University.
En 1950 publicou os seu primeiro traballo, un relato curto titulado The Dimensions of a Shadow. Máis tarde, xa na súa trintena, escribiu relatos para ser retransmitidos na radio canadense.
O que teñen en común todos os seus relatos breves é o retrato da vida cotiá de xente normal en Canadá. De feito, o estilo de Munro recorda a maneira de escribir de Chejov, segundo algúns críticos.
A Academia Sueca declarou que lle outorgaban o Premio Nobel polo seu estilo harmonioso, cheo de claridade e de realismo psicolóxico.
Cómpre pór de relevo que Munro gañou o premio Governor General’s Literary Award en tres ocasións, con Dance of the Happy Shades (1968), Who Do You Think You Are? (1978) e The Progress of Love (1986).
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