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Books and stories by Nobel Laureate Alice Munro

Canadian author Alice Munro won the 2013 Nobel Prize for Literature on Thursday, making her only the 13th woman to win the prize since its inception in 1901.

The 82-year-old, described by the Nobel committee as a "master of the contemporary short story," has said she knew early on that she wanted to be a writer.

She published her first story, "The Dimensions of a Shadow", in 1950 while a student at university.

Her writing includes the break-through work "Dance of The Happy Shades", "Who Do You Think You Are" and "Dear Life".

In 2009, Munro won the Man Booker International Prize for her entire body of work.

Below is a list of her main works as provided by the Nobel committee.

- Dance of The Happy Shades and Other Stories (1968)

- Lives of Girls and Women (1971)

- Something I've Been Meaning to Tell You (1974)

- Who Do You Think You Are? (1978)

- The Moons of Jupiter (1982)

- The Progress of Love (1986)

- Friend of My Youth (1990)

- Open Secrets (1994)

- The Love of a Good Woman (1998)

- Queenie (1999)

- Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage (2001)

Became the basis of the 2006 film "Away from Her" by Sarah Polley

- Runaway (2004)

- The View from Castle Rock (2006)

- Away from Her (2007)

- Too Much Happiness (2009)

- Dear Life (2012)


 

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