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A short story about Alice
Once upon a long time ago, before Time magazine called her one of the most influential people on the planet, Alice Munro, born in Ontario, worked as a clerk in the Vancouver Public Library. She wasn't permitted to help library patrons find their books. A mother of three daughters, Munro occasionally found spare hours to scribble stories in the Kitsilano Library branch.
Then, in 1968, the same year Joni Mitchell released her first album, Alice Munro released her first book, Dance of the Happy Shades. Munro has been publishing her short stories in New Yorker ever since. Twice winner of the Giller Prize; three times the recipient of the Governor General's Award for Fiction, Alice Munro is peerless as "the only living writer in the English language to have made a major career out of short fiction alone."; A reviewer for The Times (U.K.) has added, "reading her work it is difficult to remember why the novel was ever invented.";
Amid camera crews, dignitaries and well-wishers, Munro returned to the VPL in May to receive yet another award-the 11th annual Terasen Lifetime Achievement Award for an Outstanding Literary Career in British Columbia. "I guess I've come full circle,"; she said. A new biography by Robert Thacker entitled Alice Munro: Writing her Lives (M&S $39.99) will be released in the fall. Meanwhile a plaque in Munro's honour has been added to the Library's Writers Walk. 0-7710-8514-1
[BCBW 2005]
Once upon a long time ago, before Time magazine called her one of the most influential people on the planet, Alice Munro, born in Ontario, worked as a clerk in the Vancouver Public Library. She wasn't permitted to help library patrons find their books. A mother of three daughters, Munro occasionally found spare hours to scribble stories in the Kitsilano Library branch.
Then, in 1968, the same year Joni Mitchell released her first album, Alice Munro released her first book, Dance of the Happy Shades. Munro has been publishing her short stories in New Yorker ever since. Twice winner of the Giller Prize; three times the recipient of the Governor General's Award for Fiction, Alice Munro is peerless as "the only living writer in the English language to have made a major career out of short fiction alone."; A reviewer for The Times (U.K.) has added, "reading her work it is difficult to remember why the novel was ever invented.";
Amid camera crews, dignitaries and well-wishers, Munro returned to the VPL in May to receive yet another award-the 11th annual Terasen Lifetime Achievement Award for an Outstanding Literary Career in British Columbia. "I guess I've come full circle,"; she said. A new biography by Robert Thacker entitled Alice Munro: Writing her Lives (M&S $39.99) will be released in the fall. Meanwhile a plaque in Munro's honour has been added to the Library's Writers Walk. 0-7710-8514-1
[BCBW 2005]
Submitted on May 25, 2005 in By David.
