The Moons of Jupiter

About Alice Munro

Alice Munro is the author of twelve previous collections of stories—the most recent of which are Runaway, The View from Castle Rock, and Too Much Happiness—as well as a novel, Lives of Girls and Women. Among the many awards and prizes she has received are: three Governor General’s Literary Awards and two Giller Prizes in Canada; the Rea Award, the Lannan Literary Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the Man Booker International Prize. Her stories have appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The Paris Review, and other publications, and her collections have been translated into thirteen languages.

Praise

"Munro is in a class of her own....No other writer working today is able to invest the humble story with more power, grace or breadth....Munro has been compared to Chekhov...She has the haunting lyricism and the indulgent wisdom to qualify."--Los Angeles Times Book Review

"How does one know when one is in the grip of art, a major talent? One feels it in the assurance, the sensibility behind every line of a work; one knows its presence as much from what is withheld as from what is given or explained. It is art that speaks from the pages of Alice Munro's stories." -- Wall Street Journal

Awards

WINNER 2009 Man Booker International Prize