Alice Munro

[midnightsjane]

Alice Munro won the Nobel prize for literature! That is really amazing news; she is one of the foremost writers of short stories in the world, and one of the writers who helped form my own view of the world, and of the country I live in. She writes about ordinary people, small towns, the life of Canada, and does it with warmth, insight and excellence. The short story is a tough format, and she is a master of it. I have several of her books, most of which I've owned for decades. Along with Margaret Laurence and Margaret Atwood, Alice Munro brought the women of Canada to life for me with her stories. At the age of 82 she is still writing, although she says she might not do much more. If she writes nothing more, she's left us with a wonderful body of work, one which is now honoured with the Nobel Prize.

Bravo!