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Alice Munro wins Nobel Prize for Literature [UPDATED]
Alice Munro has been awarded the 2013 Nobel Prize for Literature, becoming the first Canadian (and only the 13th woman) to win one of the world’s top literary accolades in the prize’s 113-year...
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Poor health keeps Alice Munro from attending Nobel ceremony
(photo: Derek Shapton) Nobel Prize for Literature winner Alice Munro will not attend the award ceremony in Stockholm on Dec.10. On his personal blog, Swedish Academy secretary Peter Englund writes,...
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Alice Munro and the Nobel sales effect
(photo: Derek Shapton) There were plenty of cheers on Oct. 10 when Alice Munro became the first Canadian resident (and the 13th woman) to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. But did the excitement...
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Western University commits $1.5 million to Alice Munro Chair in Creativity
Yesterday, while Alice Munro was being presented with the Nobel Prize for Literature, Western University in London, Ontario, announced it will honour the author with a new chair for its faculty of arts...
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Munro honoured with $10,000 Harbourfront Festival Prize
(photo: Derek Shapton) The International Festival of Authors announced today that this year’s recipient of the Harbourfront Festival Prize, worth $10,000, is Alice Munro. The perennial Nobel Prize...
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Alice Munro honoured by Royal Canadian Mint
Alice Munro The Royal Canadian Mint has offered up a token of its appreciation for Canada’s best short story writer and Nobel Prize for Literature winner Alice Munro with the release of a collector’s...
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Dorris Heffron on including self-published authors in The Writers’ Union of...
TWUC chair Dorris Heffron More than 40 years ago, on Nov. 3, 1973, The Writers’ Union of Canada was founded at a meeting in Ottawa. This organization of professional book writers was originally...
View ArticleCharles Foran explores Munro Country, Slavoj Zizek accused of plagiarism, and...
Charles Foran explores Munro Country, the area in Southern Ontario that helped forge the Nobel Prize winner’s literary sensibility Bert Archer on the places that helped shape other writers, including...
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Q&A: AGO curator Andrew Hunter on Alex Colville’s literary connections
Alex Colville, “Horse and Train” (1954). Glazed oil on hardboard, Art Gallery of Hamilton. The Art Gallery of Ontario’s masterful retrospective exhibition of Alex Colville’s paintings may surprise...
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Alice Munro featured on new Canada Post stamp
image courtesy of Canada Post Nobel Prize–winning author Alice Munro has been honoured with a new stamp by Canada Post, released today in celebration of her 84th birthday. The stamp features a...
View ArticleWith Ottawa and Montreal locations to close, Nicholas Hoare shifts focus to...
Rent hikes may force retailer Nicholas Hoare to close two out of three of his stores, but the veteran bookseller… Read More »
View ArticleAlice Munro’s out, Annie Proulx in at Toronto’s Luminato Festival
Organizers of Luminato, one of Toronto’s biggest cultural festivals, have announced that its high-profile event with CanLit icon Alice Munro… Read More »
View ArticleParis-based lit mag to reprint Alice Munro’s first short story
Her Royal Majesty, a Paris-based literary and arts journal, is celebrating its latest issue on May 11, with simultaneous launch… Read More »
View ArticleIn the July/August issue of Q&Q: fall’s most anticipated books
FALL PREVIEW A first look at the season’s most anticipated books Fiction: Susan Swan’s long-awaited prequel to The Wives of… Read More »
View ArticleChina’s Mo Yan wins Nobel
A Chinese author whose name, until this morning, was likely unfamiliar to many in the West has won the Nobel… Read More »
View ArticleAlice Munro’s IFOA appearance cancelled
Alice Munro’s sold-out appearance at Toronto’s International Festival of Authors has been cancelled. In a press release from the IFOA,… Read More »
View ArticleAdvance review: Alice Munro’s Dear Life
This review of Alice Munro’s new collection of short stories, Dear Life (McClelland & Stewart), appears in the November issue… Read More »
View ArticleAlice Munro’s “Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage” to be...
Actors Kristen Wiig, Hailee Steinfeld, Guy Pearce, and Nick Nolte have signed on to star in the indie film Hateship,… Read More »
View ArticleEditing Alice Munro
In the December issue of Q&Q, Scott MacDonald asks: how do you edit one of the most precise writers working… Read More »
View ArticleMartel, Munro join campaign for treeless paper
Sustainable paper advocate Canopy has two new high-profile faces to add to its conservation initiative. Yann Martel and Alice Munro… Read More »
View ArticleTrillium Book Award finalists announced
The Trillium Book Award shortlists have been released for English- and French-language books, English-language poetry and French-language children’s literature. English… Read More »
View ArticleCBA Libris Awards announced
Yesterday at the Toronto Congress Centre, Terry Fallis was awarded the Libris Author award, beating out Will Ferguson, Alice Munro,… Read More »
View ArticleEvent photos: highlights from spring launches, awards, and parties
As the spring season winds down, here are just a few highlights from the past month’s many award ceremonies, receptions,… Read More »
View ArticleB.C. bookseller Jim Munro dies at 87
Jim Munro‚ co-founder of the iconic Victoria, B.C., bookstore Munro's Books, died suddenly on Nov. 21.
View ArticleRemembering Jim Munro: “He believed that books could change the world”
Jim Munro of Munro’s Books passed away Monday at his home. he was 87.
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