'She sets down the pains and pleasures of living in a spare, singing prose, not a word wasted .'
-Daily Telegraph
'Munro is so good one gropes for superlatives.'
-Daily Telegraph
'Alice Munro has a strong claim to being the best fiction writer now working in North America.'
- Jonathan Franzen
'Alice Munro is among the major writers of English fiction of our time.'
- Margaret Atwood
Author
About Alice Munro
Alice Munro is the author of The Beggar Maid (shortlisted for the Booker Prize) a novel and several outstanding collections of stories, including Open Secrets (winner of the WHSmith Literary Award), and Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage. Her work appears regularly in The New Yorker and she is a winner of the Giller Prize and the Governor General's Prize in her native Canada. She was awarded the 2013 Nobel Prize for Literature.