She loves delving into the mundanities of pedestrian life and unveil the underlying magic that they hold, in her writings. I pitied her.” Then I happened to see the movie based on the life of the author who gave us Noddy, the Famous Five, the Faraway Wood series, Malory Towers and created that fantasy world where I would escape as …
Alice Munro, who devoted almost her entire career to the art of the short story, has died at age 92. I especially love reading translated stories from other parts of the world, and there have been some outstanding collections this year: “My Documents: Stories” by Alejandro Zambra and translated by Megan McDowell Originally published in English in 2015, Zambra’s stories …
Published : May 16, 2024 12:58 IST - 4 MINS READ If there is such a person in this world as a writerly writer, surely that must be Alice Munro, queen of short stories. The first Munro short story I read was the absolutely stunning “The Progress of Love”, a non-linear story about three generations of women and the fragmented, …
Alice Munro, the Canadian short story writer who lent mythic proportions to the lives of ordinary people from small, rural towns like those in the Ontario countryside where she spent most of her life, has died. “Alice Munro is a national treasure — a writer of enormous depth, empathy, and humanity whose work is read, admired, and cherished by readers …
