![]() ![]() From 1979 to 1982, she toured Australia, China and Scandinavia. This book earned Munro a second Governor General’s Literary Award. Who Do You Think You Are? was published (titled The Beggar Maid: Stories of Flo and Rose in the United States). In 1978, Munro's collection of interlinked stories (1971), a collection of interlinked stories sometimes erroneouslyĭescribed as a novel. That success was followed by Lives of Girls and Women Munro's highly acclaimed first collection of stories, Dance of the Happy Shades (1968), won the Governor General's Award, Canada’s highest literary prize. In 1963 the couple moved to Victoria where they opened "Munro's Books" which still operates. Majoring in English since 1949, to marry. In 1951, she left the university, where she had been ![]() Munro began writing as a teenager, publishing her first story, "Theĭimensions of a Shadow," in 1950 while a student at the University of Western Ontario.ĭuring this period she worked as a waitress, a tobacco picker, and a ![]() Her father, Robert Eric Laidlaw, was a fox and mink farmer, Īnd her mother, Anne Clarke Laidlaw (née Chamney), was a schoolteacher. ![]()
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