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Alice Munro was b___1.____ 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___2.___. Munro began writing as a teenager. Her first story, The Dimensions of a Shadow, c___3.___ 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 (職員).

Munro’s f___4.__ collection of stories, Dance of the Happy Shades (1968), w___5.___ the Governor General’s Award, Canada’s highest literary (文學的) prize. That success was followed by Lives of Girls and Women (1971), a collection of interlinked (相互關聯的) stories sometimes incorrectly described as a novel. In 1978, Munro’s collection of interlinked stories Who Do You Think You Are? was p_6.__. This book earned Munro a s__7.___ 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___8._ 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__9.__ awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. She is k___10.__ as a “master of the contemporary (當代的) short story”. She is the first Canadian and the 13th woman to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature.

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