Hooray!! The Man Booker International Committee has decided to honour Alice Munro, the Canadian short story writer this year.
Here's a piece from The Chronicle Herald: http://thechronicleherald.ca/Front/1124082.html
Everything I ever needed to know about being a woman I read in an Alice Munro story. Her writing has so much insight into femininity, being in a relationship, getting older, and just being a woman in today's world.
She is one of the greats.
And she's just the sweetest little old lady nowadays... when she's on the CBC news (as she is whenever she wins a prize) Peter Mansbridge just melts.
If you are near Trinity College on June 25th, when she gets her prize, give her a little wave from me and tell her I love her!!
And in other exciting female CanLit news, Anne Michaels has a new novel coming out this year, a long-awaited follow up to Fugitive Pieces.
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I've been trying to develop the taste for Canadian literature, but Margaret Atwood and Margaret Laurence make it pretty hard, I can tell you -sense of humour entirely amputated. However, I did enjoy a couple of volumes from Robinson Davies. I shall definitely try Alice Munro next...
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