We say of some things that they can't be forgiven, or that we will never forgive ourselves. But we do-we do it all the time.

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.