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Alice Munro

Forfatterbiografi

Alice Munro (født 10. juli 1931 i Wingham, Ontario, Canada, død 13. maj 2024 i Port Hope, Ontario) var en canadisk forfatter, der gjorde sig bemærket som en af det 20. og 21. århundredes mest indflydelsesrige mestre i den moderne novelle. Hendes litteratur kredser ofte om hverdagsliv, relationer og livslange erfaringer, fortalt med stor psykologisk præcision og en blanding af varme, ironi og melankoli. Hun skrev næsten udelukkende noveller, og hendes ry hvilede på en omfattende produktion af samlinger, hvor fortællingerne gradvist udfolder karakterernes motiver og valg. Munro modtog Nobelprisen i litteratur i 2013, der fremhævede hendes betydning som “master of the contemporary short story”. Hendes arbejde har haft varig betydning for litteraturen, fordi hun viser, hvordan den korte form kan rumme komplekse livsforløb, ikke mindst gennem skift i tid, perspektiv og detaljeret menneskekendskab.

Bøger af Alice Munro

'For meget lykke'
'For meget lykke'

Lydbog | Dansk

Ti nye fortællinger af novellens mester: Den canadiske forfatter Alice Munro. I FOR MEGET LYKKE giverAlice Munro endnu engang læseren en håndfuld komplekse historier om hverdagsmennesker, der hver for sig åbenbarer en hel verden, og som - med Munros vanli

'Too Much Happiness'
'Too Much Happiness'

Bog | Engelsk

Brilliantly paced, lit with sparks of danger and underlying menace, these are dazzling, provocative stories about Svengali men, and radical women who outmanoeuvre them, about destructive marriages and curdled friendships, about mothers and sons, about mom

'Something I've Been Meaning to Tell You'
'Something I've Been Meaning to Tell You'

Bog | Engelsk

Discover Alice Munros remarkable early stories. Alice Munros stories are miraculous Sunday Times The sisters, mothers and daughters, aunts, grandmothers, and friends in these stories shimmer with hope and love, anger, and reconciliation, as they contend w

'Dance of the Happy Shades'
'Dance of the Happy Shades'

Bog | Engelsk

Discover Alice Munros first mesmerising and atmospheric short story collection. A remarkable writer whose major characters emerge in shining clarity... A major talent is at work here Los Angeles Times Alice Munro's territory is the farms and semi-rura

'The Love of a Good Woman'
'The Love of a Good Woman'

Bog | Engelsk

In this collection, Alice Munro captures the lives of ordinary women; their passions and contradictions that lie just below the surface. One of the finest short-story writers of our time...absorbing and brilliant Observer Munro explores women who are unru

'The Moons of Jupiter'
'The Moons of Jupiter'

Bog | Engelsk

THE WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE The characters who populate an Alice Munro story live and breathe. Passions hopelessly conceived, affections betrayed, marriages made and broken: the joys, fears, loves and awakenings of women echo throughout th

'Open Secrets'
'Open Secrets'

Bog | Engelsk

In small towns and far-flung cities, ordinary moments carry the weight of secrets that can alter a life. Ranging from the late nineteenth century to the 1990s and from rural Ontario to the Somme and the Balkans, Open Secrets is a series of interconnected

'Runaway'
'Runaway'

Bog | Engelsk

Discover Alice Munros intimate and emotional short stories about womens choices that can quietly change lives. Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature and the Man Booker International Prize, Alice Munro writes with unmatched acuity about the pressures of

'Too Much Happiness'
'Too Much Happiness'

Bog | Engelsk

"Too Much Happiness" indeholder forførende og provokerende historier om manipulerende mænd og de kvinder, der forsøger at overliste dem, destruktive ægteskaber og koaguleret venskaber."Too Much Happiness" er en bog om mødre og sønner,

'Dear Life'
'Dear Life'

Bog | Engelsk

Discover Alice Munros powerful stories about ordinary people at the moments when chance, memory or desire changes everything. Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature and the Man Booker International Prize, Alice Munro writes stories that move with quiet f

'The Progress of Love'
'The Progress of Love'

Bog | Engelsk

These dazzling and utterly satisfying stories explore varieties and degrees of love - filial, platonic, sexual, parental, and imagined - in the lives of apparently ordinary folk. Complete, complex, and brilliantly structured Daily Telegraph In fact, Munr

'Friend of My Youth'
'Friend of My Youth'

Bog | Engelsk

Read Alice Munros dark and powerful exploration of the human heart in this ten-story collection. Brilliant at evoking life's diversity and unpredictability...an unrivalled chronicler of human nature under a vast span of aspects, moods, and pressures S

'Lives of Girls and Women'
'Lives of Girls and Women'

Bog | Engelsk

'Superb' Independent 'Exact and unflinching' Guardian Catching frogs, grazing knees, singing songs to save England from Hitler - that was childhood for Del Jordan, and now she's impatient for more. More than she can find in the encyclo

'Selected Stories'
'Selected Stories'

Bog | Engelsk

Covering the first half of Nobel Prize winner Alice Munro's career, these are some of the best, most touching and powerful short stories ever written. Munro can pack more into one of her stories - more subtlety, more grace, more tender twists of the h

'Vintage Munro: Nobel Prize Edition'
'Vintage Munro: Nobel Prize Edition'

Bog | Engelsk

This classic collection-now revised and expanded-is the perfect introduction to Nobel Laureate Alice Munro's brilliant, revelatory short stories, in which she unfolds the wordless secrets that lie at the center of human experience. The stories in this

'Selected Stories Volume Two: 1995-2009'
'Selected Stories Volume Two: 1995-2009'

Bog | Engelsk

Covering the second half of Nobel Prize winner Alice Munro's career, these are some of the best, most touching and powerful short stories ever written. 'Munro is still one of our most fearless explorers of the human being' The Times Spanning h

'Selected Stories'
'Selected Stories'

Bog | Engelsk

Covering the first half of Nobel Prize winner Alice Munro's career, these are some of the best, most touching and powerful short stories ever written. Munro can pack more into one of her stories - more subtlety, more grace, more tender twists of the h

'Too Much Happiness'
'Too Much Happiness'

Bog | Engelsk

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE® IN LITERATURE 2013 Ten superb new stories by one of our most beloved and admired writers-the winner of the 2009 Man Booker International Prize. With clarity and ease, Alice Munro once again renders complex, difficult events and

'Lives of Girls and Women'
'Lives of Girls and Women'

Bog | Engelsk

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE® IN LITERATURE 2013 The only novel from Alice Munro-award-winning author of The Love of a Good Woman --is an insightful, honest book, "autobiographical in form but not in fact," that chronicles a young girl's growin

'For meget lykke'
'For meget lykke'

Bog | Dansk

"For meget lykke" er en genudgivelse af 10 af Alice Munros fantastiske noveller om kvindeliv, uhygge, livet, følelser og meget mere. Atter engang bearbejdet Munro hverdagen, og de mennesker der indgår i den. Som i et skæbnespil, åbner der sig ny

'Livet'
'Livet'

Bog | Dansk

"Livet" er en anmelderrost novellesamling af Nobelprismodtageren i litteratur 2013, den canadiske Alice Munro. Munro er ofte blevet kaldt mesteren af nutidige noveller. "Livet" indeholder fjorte tidsløse og livskloge fortællinger, hvor

'Offentlige hemmeligheder'
'Offentlige hemmeligheder'

Bog | Dansk

Elsker man noveller, kender man sandsynligvis Alice Munro og hendes populære novellesamling "Offentlige hemmeligheder" er nu blevet genudgivet. Samlingen indeholder otte noveller, der handler om beboerne i en canadisk landsby i staten af det 21-

'Min ungdomsveninde'
'Min ungdomsveninde'

Bog | Dansk

"Min ungdoms veninde" indeholder syv kvinders individuelle historier fra de sidste 75 år. I novellerne er der fokus på forskellige ting, men fælles for dem alle er bedrageri. Bedrageri kan vise sig i flere forskellige former og i novellerne ople

'Væk'
'Væk'

Bog | Dansk

Genudgivelse i paperback.IAlice Munros ni noveller møder vi kvinder i alle aldre og omstændigheder. Titelnovellen handler om en ung kvinde, som til trods for at hun ønsker det ikke formår at forlade sin mand. I en anden novelle er det en ung kvinde fra

'Fjendskab, venskab, ægteskab'
'Fjendskab, venskab, ægteskab'

Bog | Dansk

Genudgivelse i pb Ini noveller skildrer Munro mennesker i konflikt mellem tradition og fornyelse, mellem det hjemlige og ubekendte, mellem tryghed og frihed. I titelnovellen bryder den ensom Johanna ud af sin vante hverdag som husholderske for den aldrend

'The Moons of Jupiter'
'The Moons of Jupiter'

Bog | Engelsk

Eleven "witty, subtle, [and] passionate" ( The New York Times Book Review ) stories from Nobel Prize-winning author Alice Munro, "a true master of the form" (Salman Rushdie) "Alice Munro's fine and intelligent stories are like

'Tiggerpigen'
'Tiggerpigen'

Bog | Dansk

Dette er en genudgivelse i paperback. Historien om Rose er historien om en kvindes forsøg på at finde og acceptere sig selv. Hun har spillet mange roller i sit liv men er det roller, hun selv har valgt? Har hun ikke blot altid været den, omgivelserne for

'Forunderlig er kærligheden'
'Forunderlig er kærligheden'

Bog | Dansk

Hvis man elsker noveller, og måske endda bare ikke kan stå for novelledronningen Alice Munro, så må man ikke snyde sig selv for "Forunderlig er kærligheden", der her genudgives i paperback, og indeholder 11 smukke noveller. De 11 noveller, inklu

'Dance of the Happy Shades'
'Dance of the Happy Shades'

Bog | Engelsk

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE ® IN LITERATURE 2013 In these fifteen short stories--her eighth collection of short stories in a long and distinguished career--Alice Munro conjures ordinary lives with an extraordinary vision, displaying the remarkable talent fo

'Noget jeg gerne vil sige'
'Noget jeg gerne vil sige'

Bog | Dansk

"Noget jeg gerne vil sige" er samlingen af Alice Munros 13 noveller, hvor hun eminent skildrer forskellige skæbner og øjeblikke fra første verdenskrig til i dag. Alice Munro er en af de fremmeste amerikanske novelleforfattere. I "Noget jeg