Alice Munro (born Alice Ann Laidlaw on July 10, 1931) is a noted Canadian short story writer. She was born in Wingham, Ontario and currently lives in the small town of Clinton, Ontario. She is a graduate of the University of Western Ontario. In 1986 she was awarded the Marian Engel Award for her body of work.

On November 11, 2004, Munro won the Giller Prize for her short story collection Runaway. It is her second Giller; her first was won in 1998 for The Love of a Good Woman. This collection was also selected as a candidate in the CBC's 2004 edition of Canada Reads.

Munro is widely considered one of the greatest short story writers in modern literature.

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Works

• Dance of the Happy Shades - 1968 (winner of the 1968 Governor General's Award for Fiction)
• Lives of Girls and Women - 1971
• Something I've Been Meaning to Tell You - 1974
• Who Do You Think You Are? - 1978
• The Moons of Jupiter 1982 (nominated for a Governor General's Award)
• Friend of My Youth - 1990 (winner of the Trillium Book Award)
• The Progress of Love - 1986 (winner of the 1986 Governor General's Award for Fiction)
• Open Secrets - 1994 (nominated for a Governor General's Award)
• Selected Stories - 1996
• The Love of a Good Woman - 1998 (winner of the 1998 Giller Prize)
• Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage - 2001
• Runaway - 2004 (winner of the 2004 Giller Prize) ISBN 140004281X