Alice Munro: Short Stories Alice Munro

Awards

• Governor General's Literary Award for English language fiction (1968, 1978, 1986)
• Canadian Booksellers Award for Lives of Girls and women (1971)
• Shortlisted for the annual (UK) Booker Prize for Fiction (1980) for The Beggar Maid
• The Writers' Trust of Canada's Marian Engel Award (1986) for her body of work [10]
• Trillium Book Award for Friend of My Youth (1991), The Love of a Good Woman (1999) and Dear Life (2013)[44]
• WH Smith Literary Award (1995, UK) for Open Secrets
• Lannan Literary Award for Fiction (1995)
• PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in Short Fiction (1997)
• National Book Critics Circle Award (1998, U.S.) For The Love of a Good Woman
• Giller Prize (1998 and 2004)
• Rea Award for the Short Story (2001) given to a living American or Canadian author.
• Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize (2004) for Runaway[45]
• Libris Award
• Edward MacDowell Medal for outstanding contribution to the arts by the MacDowell Colony (2006).[46]
• O. Henry Award for continuing achievement in short fiction in the U.S. for "Passion" (2006), "What Do You Want To Know For" (2008) and "Corrie" (2012)
• Man Booker International Prize (2009, UK)[47]
• Canada-Australia Literary Prize
• Commonwealth Writers Prize Regional Award for Canada and the Caribbean.
• Nobel Prize in Literature (2013) as a "master of the contemporary short story".[7]

Honours

• 1992: Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters
• 1993: Royal Society of Canada's Lorne Pierce Medal
• 2005: Medal of Honor for Literature from the U.S. National Arts Club
• 2010: Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters[48]
• 2014: Silver coin released by the Royal Canadian Mint in honour of Munro's Nobel Prize win [49]
• 2015: Postage stamp released by Canada Post in honour of Munro's Nobel Prize win [50]