Alice Munro
1931 – 2024 · Canada · Literature
Nobel Prize in Literature, 2013
Made the short story carry the weight of novels.
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Who shaped Alice Munro, and who they shaped
Inherited from2
- Anton Chekhov
1860 – 1904 · Literature, Medicine
Munro is repeatedly and rightly read as Chekhov's heir in the short story.
- Jane Austen
1775 – 1817 · Literature
Free indirect style applied to provincial women's lives runs from Austen to Munro.
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