I can't play bridge. I don't play tennis. All those things that people learn, and I admire, there hasn't seemed time for. But what there is time for is looking out the window.

They have since moved from the farm to a house in the town of Clinton. ) 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. In 1966 their daughter Andrea was born.

The locus of Munro’s fiction is her native southwestern Ontario. Her "accessible moving stories" explore human complexities in a seemingly effortless style. Munro's writing has establiAlice Munrod her as "one of our greatest contemporary writers of fiction" or as Cynthia Ozick put it "our Chekhov.