Alice Munro is the winner of one of this year’s Trillium Book Awards, for her thirteenth, and most recent collection of short stories called “Dear Life: Stories” They are tales about the people in the communities on the Ontario shore of Lake Huron.
This is Munro’s second Trillium Book Award. In 1990 she won for “Friend of My Youth”.
The awards, and the accompanying C$20,000 prize, were handed out last night in Toronto. The Trillium, named for the official flower of the province of Ontario, celebrates the best in that province’s literary world.
Ontario’s Minister of Tourism, Culture and Sport, Michael Chan said, “The works of Ontario’s gifted writers inspire the hearts and minds of people across the country and around the world,” Munro was in attendance last night and received a standing ovation when Chan read out her name.
Alice Munro, divides her time between Ontario and British Columbia.
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