Alice Munro

Cynthia Ozick has called Alice Munro "our Chekhov."

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On that course, students read fiction by Canadian authors such as Alice Munro

The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed Susan Swan 2010

Letter writing also has a long history in literature: writers such as Alice Munro, Dave Eggers, Nikolai Gogol and Jonathan Safran Foer have used the technique with hilarious and heart wrenching results.

AMBL Mike Christie 2008

His 2007 graphic novel, "Shortcomings," was a bracingly detailed — and fictional — relationship forensic that novelist Jonathan Lethem compared in look to the work of French filmmaker Erich Rohmer and in character complexity to the prose of Alice Munro.

Negotiating the Union Bruce Bennett 2011

Happily, Canadian writers like Ms. Atwood, Alice Munro, Carol Shields, Mordecai Richler and Douglas Coupland, among others, have subverted that literary snobbery.

Dear Book Lover: The Vast Terrain of Canadian Fiction Cynthia Crossen 2011

Alice Munro, mistress of the short form, describes a story as "a world seen in a quick glancing light".

The Guardian Review short story collection 2011

The Man Booker International, worth £60,000 to the winner, is given to a living writer in recognition of their "achievement in fiction", and has been won in the past by Chinua Achebe, Alice Munro and Ismail Kadare.

Philip Roth protest had nothing to do with feminism, says Virago founder 2011

I really have been influenced by writers and memes from Alice Munro, F.

about her Yasmin Elaine Waring 2011

It's perhaps unsurprising that Alice Munro has been a major influence or that, or to learn that in her early years of writing, she used to read a few pages of Elizabeth Bowen before she sat down at her desk to ease her passage from domestic to creative life.

Tessa Hadley: A life in writing 2011

Ask me to try and write a short story good enough to be put into an anthology alongside those of William Trevor and Helen Simpson and Alice Munro and … well, name your great contemporary story-writers - and I will try my best and hope my best will be good enough and if you don ` t offer me a penny, fine, honour in the company I would be keeping is enough.

No, amateurs are not 'Just as good as...' 2010