Who Do You Think You Are

Alice Munro is a Canadian writer born on July 10, 1931 whose work has been described as revolutionizing the structure of the short story. Over the course of her busy career, Monroe has won many awards; Including the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2013 for her work as a "Madam of Contemporary Literary Art", and the Man Booker International Prize in 2009 for her fictional works written over the course of her creative career. Monroe's stories explore complex human aspects in simple prose style. Munro's novels are often set in her hometown of Huron County in southwestern Ontario. Her stories explore human complexities in uncomplicated prose style. Monroe's writing has proven to be "one of the greatest writers of our contemporary fiction", or, as Cynthia Usyk put it, "Chekhov".