**Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature**
Winner of the Man Booker International Prize for 2009, Alice Munro is the author of eleven collections of stories, most recently The View from Castle Rock, and a novel, Lives of Girls and Women.
She has received many awards and prizes, including three of Canada's
Governor General's Literary Awards and two Giller Prizes, the Rea Award
for the Short Story, the Lannan Literary Award, the W.H. Smith Book
Award in the UK, the National Book Critics Circle Award in the US, and
was shortlisted for the Booker Prize for The Beggar Maid. Her stories have appeared in The New Yorker, Atlantic Monthly, The Paris Review,
and other publications, and her collections have been translated into
thirteen languages. She lives with her husband in Clinton, Ontario, near
Lake Huron in Canada.