Alice Munro

Broschiertes Buch

Too Much Happiness

Beschreibung

2009 gewann Alice Munro den Man Booker International Prize. Hier liegen nun 10 neue Kurzgeschichten der Autorin vor.

Autor

Alice Munro was born in 1931 and was the author of thirteen collections of stories and the novel, Lives of Girls and Women. She received many awards and prizes, including three of Canada's Governor General's Literary Awards and two Giller Prizes, the Rea Award for the Short Story, the Lannan Literary Award, the WHSmith Book Award in the UK, the National Book Critics Circle Award in the US, was shortlisted for the Booker Prize for Who Do You Think You Are? (previously published as The Beggar Maid), and was awarded the Man Booker International Prize 2009 for her overall contribution to fiction on the world stage, and in 2013 she won the Nobel Prize in Literature. Her stories have appeared in the New Yorker, Atlantic Monthly, Paris Review and other publications, and her collections have been translated into thirteen languages. Alice Munro died in 2024.

© Derek Shapton

Zur Autorenwelt

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Random House UK / Vintage, London
• Seitenzahl: 303
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. September 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 177mm x 108mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 174g
• ISBN-13: 9780099552444
• ISBN-10: 0099552442
• Artikelnr.: 29432817

Rezensionen

She writes with a beautiful clarity, an elemental humanity and a marvellous, limpid, funny, apprehension of what goes on Jane Shilling Sunday Telegraph