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Alice Munro was b_______ in Wingham, Ontario. Her father, Robert Eric Laidlaw, was a fox and mink (貂) farmer, and her mother, Anne Clarke Laidlaw, was a school t______. Munro began writing as a teenager. Her first story, The Dimensions of a Shadow, c______ out in 1950 while she was studying at the University of Western Ontario. During this period she worked as a waitress, a tobacco picker, and a library clerk (职员).
Munro’s f_____ collection of stories, Dance of the Happy Shades (1968), w______ the Governor General’s Award, Canada’s highest literary (文学的) prize. That success was followed by Lives of Girls and Women (1971), a collection of interlinked (相互关联的) stories sometimes incorrectly described as a novel. In 1978, Munro’s collection of interlinked stories Who Do You Think You Are? was p___. This book earned Munro a s_____ Governor General’s Literary Award. From 1979 to 1982, she toured Australia, China and Scandinavia. In 1980, Munro held the position of writer in residence (住校) at b____ the University of British Columbia and the University of Queensland. Through the 1980s and 1990s, she published a short-story collection about once every four years.
On 10 October, 2013, Munro w____ awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. She is k_____ as a “master of the contemporary (当代的) short story”. She is the first Canadian and the 13^th woman to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature.