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Alice Munro
Geburtstag: 10. Juli 1931
Andere Namen: Элис Манро, Άλις Μανρό
Alice Munro ist eine kanadische Schriftstellerin und Literaturnobelpreisträgerin, deren Werk mehr als 150 Kurzgeschichten umfasst. Alice Munro hat die Struktur von Kurzgeschichten revolutioniert. Die Geschichten, die sich durch sprachlichen Feinschliff auszeichnen, beginnen oft an einer unerwarteten Stelle, anschließend wird die Erzählung chronologisch rückwärts oder vorwärts entwickelt.Mit ihren Erzählungen knüpft Munro an die angelsächsische Tradition der Short Story an und wird oft mit Anton Tschechow, dem russischen Meister dieser Form, verglichen. In Kanada und im englischsprachigen Raum ist Alice Munro eine Bestsellerautorin. Sie wurde mit zahlreichen Preisen ausgezeichnet, unter anderem 2009 mit dem Man Booker International Prize und 2013 mit dem Nobelpreis für Literatur. Wikipedia
Zitate Alice Munro
„The conversation of kisses. Subtle, engrossing, fearless, transforming.“
— Alice Munro, buch Runaway
Quelle: Runaway
„People are curious. A few people are. They will be driven to find things out, even trivial things.“
"Friend of My Youth", in Friend of My Youth https://books.google.com/books?id=JHO0R0im-WsC&pg=PT94 (1990)
Kontext: People are curious. A few people are. They will be driven to find things out, even trivial things. They will put things together, knowing all along that they may be mistaken. You see them going around with notebooks, scraping the dirt off gravestones, reading microfilm, just in the hope of seeing this trickle in time, making a connection, rescuing one thing from the rubbish.
And they may get it wrong, after all. I may have got it wrong.
„Always remember that when a man goes out of the room, he leaves everything in it behind… When a woman goes out she carries everything that happened in the room along with her.“
— Alice Munro, buch Too Much Happiness
Quelle: "Too Much Happiness", in Too Much Happiness (2009)
„In your life there are a few places, or maybe only the one place, where something happened, and then there are all the other places.“
— Alice Munro, buch Too Much Happiness
Quelle: "Too Much Happiness", in Too Much Happiness (2009)
„Because if she let go of her grief even for a minute it would only hit her harder when she bumped into it again.“
Family Furnishings: Selected Stories, 1995-2014 (2014)
Quelle: Away from Her
„You cannot let your parents anywhere near your real humiliations.“
— Alice Munro, buch Open Secrets
Quelle: Open Secrets (1994)
„She was learning, quite late, what many people around her appeared to have known since childhood: that life can be perfectly satisfying without major achievements.“
— Alice Munro, buch Too Much Happiness
Quelle: "Too Much Happiness", in Too Much Happiness (2009)
„Love removes the world for you, and just as surely when it's going well as when it's going badly.“
Quelle: The Beggar Maid: Stories of Flo and Rose
