NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE 2013
The Nobel Prize in
Literature for 2013 is awarded to the Canadian author Alice Munro for “master of the
contemporary short story”.
Biobibliographical
notes
Alice Munro was
born on the 10th of July, 1931 in Wingham, which is in the Canadian province of
Ontario. Her mother was a teacher, and her father was a fox farmer. After
finishing high school, she began studying journalism and English at the
University of Western Ontario, but broke off her studies when she got married
in 1951. Together with her husband, she settled in Victoria, British Columbia,
where the couple opened a bookstore. Munro started writing stories in her
teens, but published her first book-length work in 1968, the story collection Dance
of the Happy Shades, which received considerable attention in Canada. She had
begun publishing in various magazines from the beginning of the 1950's. In 1971
she published a collection of stories entitled Lives of Girls and Women, which
critics have described as a Bildungsroman.
Munro is primarily
known for her short stories and has published many collections over the years.
Her works include Who Do You Think You Are? (1978), The Moons of
Jupiter (1982), Runaway (2004), The View from Castle Rock(2006)
and Too Much Happiness (2009). The collection Hateship,
Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage (2001) became the basis of the
film Away from Her from 2006, directed by Sarah Polley. Her most
recent collection is Dear Life(2012).
Munro is acclaimed for
her finely tuned storytelling, which is characterized by clarity and
psychological realism. Some critics consider her a Canadian Chekhov. Her
stories are often set in small town environments, where the struggle for a
socially acceptable existence often results in strained relationships and moral
conflicts – problems that stem from generational differences and colliding life
ambitions. Her texts often feature depictions of everyday but decisive events,
epiphanies of a kind, that illuminate the surrounding story and let existential
questions appear in a flash of lightning.
Alice Munro currently
resides in Clinton, near her childhood home in south western Ontario.
Major
works in English
· Dance
of the Happy Shades and Other Stories. – Toronto : Ryerson, 1968
· Lives
of Girls and Women. – Toronto : McGraw-Hill Ryerson, 1971
· Something
I've Been Meaning to Tell You : Thirteen Stories. – Toronto :
McGraw-Hill Ryerson, 1974
· Who
Do You Think You Are? : Stories. – Toronto : Macmillan of Canada,
1978. – Note: also published as The Beggar Maid : Stories of Flo
and Rose. – New York : Knopf, 1979
· The
Moons of Jupiter : Stories. – Toronto : Macmillan of Canada, 1982
· The
Progress of Love. – Toronto : McClelland and Stewart, 1986
· Friend
of My Youth : Stories. – Toronto : McClelland and Stewart, 1990
· Open
Secrets : Stories. – Toronto : McClelland and Stewart, 1994
· The
Love of a Good Woman : Stories. – Toronto : McClelland and Stewart,
1998
· Queenie : A
Story. – London : Profile Books/London Review of Books, 1999
· Hateship,
Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage : Stories. – Toronto :
McClelland and Stewart, 2001
· Runaway : Stories.
– Toronto : McClelland and Stewart, 2004
· The
View from Castle Rock : Stories. – Toronto : McClelland and Stewart,
2006
· Away
from Her. – New York : Vintage, 2007. – Note: contains the short story “The
Bear Came Over The Mountain” which was later made into the motion
picture Away from her
· Too
Much Happiness : Stories. – Toronto : McClelland and Stewart, 2009
· Dear
Life : Stories. – Toronto : McClelland and Stewart, 2012
Collected short stories
§ Selected
Stories. – Toronto : McClelland and Stewart, 1996
§ No
Love Lost. – Toronto : McClelland and Stewart, 2003
§ Vintage
Munro. – New York : Vintage, 2004
§ Carried
Away : A Selection of Stories. – New York : Knopf, 2006
§ Alice
Munro’s Best : Selected Stories. – Toronto : McClelland and Stewart,
2008
§ New
Selected Stories. – London : Chatto & Windus, 2011
Works in French
µ Pour-qui
te prendstu? : roman / traduit de l'anglais par Colette Tonge. –
Montréal : Québec/Amérique, 1981. – Traduction de : Who Do You Think You Are?
µ Les
lunes de Jupiter : nouvelles / traduit de l'anglais par Colette
Tonge. – Paris : Albin Michel, 1989. – Traduction de : The Moons of Jupiter
µ Miles
city, Montana / traduit de l'anglais par Florence Petry et Jean-Pierre
Ricard. – Paris : Deuxtemps Tierce, 1991. – Traduction de : The Progress of
Love
µ Amie
de ma jeunesse : nouvelles / traduit de l'anglais par
Marie-Odile Fortier-Masek. – Paris : Albin Michel, 1992. – Traduction de :
Friend of my Youth
µ Secrets
de Polichinelle : nouvelles / traduit de l'anglais (Canada) par
Céline Schwaller-Balaÿ. – Paris : Rivages, 1995. – Traduction de : Open Secrets
µ L'amour
d'une honnête femme : nouvelles / traduit de l'anglais (Canada)
par Geneviève Doze. – Paris : Payot et Rivages, 2001. – Traduction de : The
Love of a Good Woman
µ La
danse des ombres heureuses : nouvelles/ traduit de l'anglais (Canada)
par Geneviève Doze. – Paris : Payot et Rivages, 2002
µ Un
demi-pamplemousse : nouvelles / traduit de l'anglais (Canada) par
Michèle Causse. – Paris : Payot & Rivages, 2002
µ Un
peu, beaucoup, pas du tout / traduit de l'anglais (Canada) par Geneviève
Doze. – Paris : Payot et Rivages, 2004. – Traduction de : Hateship, Friendship,
Courtship, Loveship, Marriage
µ Loin
d'elle / traduit de l'anglais (Canada) par Geneviève Doze. – Paris : Payot
& Rivages, 2007
µ Fugitives /
traduit de l'anglais (Canada) par Jacqueline Huet et Jean-Pierre Carasso. –
Paris : Olivier. 2008. – Traduction de : Runaway
µ Du
côté de Castle Rock / traduit de l'anglais (Canada) par Jacqueline Huet et
Jean-Pierre Carasso. – Paris : Olivier, 2009. – Traduction de : The View from
Castle Rock
µ Trop
de bonheur / traduit de l'anglais (Canada) par Jacqueline Huet et
Jean-Pierre Carasso. – Paris : Olivier. 2013. – Traduction de : Too Much
Happiness
Works in
Swedish
ü Tiggarflickan /
översättning av Karin Benecke. – Stockholm : Norstedt, 1984. – Orig:s titel:
The Beggar Maid
ü Jupiters
månar : noveller / översättning av Karin Benecke. – Stockholm :
Norstedt, 1985. – Orig:s titel: The Moons of Jupiter
ü Kärlekens
vägar : noveller / översättning av Karin Benecke. – Stockholm :
Norstedt, 1991. – Orig:s titel: The Progress of Love
ü Äpplen
eller apelsiner : noveller / översättning av Karin Benecke. –
Stockholm : Norstedt, 1993. – Orig:s titel: Friend of my Youth
ü Kärlek,
vänskap, hat : noveller / översättning av Rose-Marie Nielsen. –
Stockholm : Wahlström & Widstrand, 2003. – Orig:s titel: Hateship,
Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage
ü Nära
hem / översättning: Karin Benecke. – Stockholm : Atlas, 2009. – Urval ur:
Progress of Love; Moons of Jupiter; Friend of my Youth
ü För
mycket lycka / översättning: Rose-Marie Nielsen. – Stockholm : Atlas,
2010. – Orig:s titel: Too Much Happiness
ü Brinnande
livet / översättning: Rose-Marie Nielsen. – Stockholm : Atlas, 2013. –
Orig:s titel: Dear life
ü Tiggarflickan /
översättning : Karin Benecke. – Ny utg. – Stockholm : Atlas, 2013. – Orig:s
titel: The Beggar Maid
Works in
Spanish
Ä Las
lunas de Júpiter / traducción de Esperanza Pérez Moreno. – Barcelona : Versal,
1990. – Título original: The Moons of Jupiter
Ä El
progreso del amor / versión castellana de Flora Casas. – Madrid : Debate,
1990. – Título original: The Progress of Love
Ä Amistad
de juventud / traducción de Esperanza Pérez Moreno. – Barcelona : Versal, 1991.
– Título original: Friend of My Youth
Ä Secretos
a voces / versión castellana de Flora Casas. – Madrid : Debate, 1996. –
Título original: Open Secrets
Ä El
amor de una mujer generosa : relatos / traducción de Javier Alfaya Bula,
José Hamad, Javier Alfaya McShane. – Madrid : Siglo XXI de España, 2002. –
Título original: The Love of a Good Woman
Ä Odio,
amistad, noviazgo, amor, matrimonio / traducción de Marcelo Cohen. –
Barcelona : RBA, 2003. – Título original: Hateship, Friendship, Courtship,
Loveship, Marriage
Ä Escapada /
traducción de Carmen Aguilar. – Barcelona : RBA, 2005. – Título original:
Runaway
Ä La
vista desde Castle Rock / traducción de Isabel Ferrer y Carlos Milla. –
Barcelona : RBA, 2008. – Título original: The View from Castle Rock
Ä Demasiada
felicidad / traducción de Flora Casas. – Barcelona : Lumen, 2010. – Título
original: Too Much Happiness
Ä La
vida de las mujeres / traducción de Aurora Echevarría. – Barcelona :
Lumen, 2011. – Título original: Lives of Girls and Women
Ä Mi
vida querida / traducción de Eugenia Vázquez Nacarino. – Barcelona :
Lumen, 2013. – Título original: Dear Life
Critical
studies (a selection)
v Probable
Fictions : Alice Munro’s Narrative Acts / edited by Louis K.
MacKendrick. – Downsview, Ont. : ECW Press, 1983
v Dahlie,
Hallvard, Alice Munro and Her Works. – Toronto, Ont. : ECW Press, 1984
v The
Art of Alice Munro : Saying the Unsayable : Papers From the
Waterloo Conference / edited by Judith Miller. – Waterloo, Ont. :
University of Waterloo Press, 1984
v Martin,
W. R., Alice Munro : Paradox and Parallel. – Edmonton, Alta. :
University of Alberta Press, 1986
v Blodgett,
E. D., Alice Munro. – Boston : Twayne, 1988
v Carrington,
Ildikó de Papp, Controlling the Uncontrollable : The Fiction of
Alice Munro. – DeKalb : Northern Illinois University Press, 1989
v Rasporich,
Beverly Jean, Dance of the Sexes : Art and Gender in the Fiction
of Alice Munro. – Edmonton, Alta. : University of Alberta Press, 1990
v Redekop,
Magdalene, Mothers and Other Clowns : The Stories of Alice
Munro. – London: Routledge, 1992
v Carscallen,
James, The Other Country : Patterns in the Writing of Alice
Munro. – Toronto : ECW Press, 1993
v Heble,
Ajay, The Tumble of Reason : Alice Munro’s Discourse of Absence.
– Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 1994
v Howells,
Coral Ann, Alice Munro. – Manchester : Manchester University Press, 1998
v The
Rest of the Story : Critical Essays on Alice Munro / edited by
Robert Thacker. – Toronto : ECW Press, 1999
v Munro,
Sheila, Lives of Mothers & Daughters : Growing Up With Alice
Munro. – Toronto : McClelland & Stewart, 2001
v Thacker,
Robert, Munro : Writing Her Lives : a Biography. –
Toronto : Douglas Gibson, 2005
v Mazur,
Carol, Alice Munro : An Annotated Bibliography of Works and
Criticism / compiled by Carol Mazur ; edited by Cathy Moulder. – Lanham,
Md. : Scarecrow Press, 2007
v Hooper,
Brad, The Fiction of Alice Munro : An Appreciation. – Westport,
Conn. : Praeger, 2008
v Skagert,
Ulrica, Possibility-Space and Its Imaginative Variations in Alice Munro's
Short Stories. – Stockholm : Stockholm University, 2008
v Alice
Munro / edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom. – New York :
Bloom’s Literary Criticism, 2009
v Duncan,
Isla, Alice Munro’s Narrative Art. – New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011
v Alice
Munro / Charles E. May, editor. – Ipswich, Mass. : Salem Press, 2013
Works in
German
Ø Das
Bettlermädchen : Geschichten von Flo und Rose / Aus dem
Amerikan. übers. von Hildegard Petry. – Stuttgart : Klett-Cotta, 1981. –
Originaltitel: Who Do You Think You Are?
Ø Kleine
Aussichten : ein Roman von Mädchen und Frauen / Aus dem
Amerikan. übers. von Hildegard Petry. – Stuttgart : Klett-Cotta, 1983. –
Originaltitel: Lives of Girls and Women
Ø Die
Jupitermonde : Erzählungen / Aus dem Amerikan. übers. von
Manfred Ohl und Hans Sartorius. – Stuttgart : Klett-Cotta, 1986. –
Originaltitel: The Moons of Jupiter
Ø Der
Mond über der Eisbahn : Liebesgeschichten / Aus dem Amerikan.
übers. von Helga Huisgen. – Stuttgart : Klett-Cotta, 1989. – Originaltitel: The
Progress of Love
Ø Glaubst
du, es war Liebe? : Erzählungen / Aus dem Engl. übers. von Karen
Nölle-Fischer. – Stuttgart : Klett-Cotta, 1991. – Originaltitel: Friend of my
Youth
Ø Offene
Geheimnisse : Erzählungen / Aus dem Engl. von Karen
Nölle-Fischer. – Stuttgart : Klett-Cotta, 1996. – Originaltitel: Open Secrets
Ø Die
Liebe einer Frau : drei Erzählungen und ein kurzer Roman / Aus
dem Engl. von Heidi Zerning. – Frankfurt am Main : S. Fischer, 2000. –
Originaltitel: The Love of a Good Woman
Ø Der
Traum meiner Mutter : Erzählungen / Aus dem Engl. von Heidi
Zerning. – Frankfurt am Main : S. Fischer, 2002
Ø Himmel
und Hölle : neun Erzählungen / Aus dem Engl. von Heidi Zerning.
– Frankfurt am Main : S. Fischer, 2004. – Originaltitel: Hateship, Friendship,
Courtship, Loveship, Marriage
Ø Tricks : acht
Erzählungen / Aus dem Engl. von Heidi Zerning. – Frankfurt am Main : S.
Fischer, 2006. – Originaltitel: Runaway
Ø Wozu
wollen Sie das wissen? : elf Erzählungen / Aus dem Engl. von
Heidi Zerning. – Frankfurt am Main : S. Fischer, 2008. – Originaltitel: The
View from Castle Rock
Ø Der
Bär kletterte über den Berg : drei Dreiecksgeschichten / Aus dem
Engl. von Heidi Zerning. – Berlin : Wagenbach, 2008
Ø Tanz
der seligen Geister : fünfzehn Erzählungen / Aus dem Engl. von
Heidi Zerning. – Zürich : Dörlemann, 2010. – Originaltitel: Dance of the Happy
Shades
Ø Zu
viel Glück : zehn Erzählungen / Aus dem Engl. von Heidi Zerning.
– Frankfurt am Main : S. Fischer, 2011. – Originaltitel: Too Much Happiness
Ø Was
ich dir schon immer sagen wollte : dreizehn Erzählungen / Aus
dem Engl. von Heidi Zerning. – Zürich : Dörlemann, 2012. – Originaltitel:
Something I've Been Meaning to Tell You
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