Alice Munro was born on 10 July 1931 in Wingham. A Canadian short-story writer, Munro was widely admired for stories set largely in small-town Ontario, which explored the complexities of ordinary lives, memory and family with unusual depth and precision. Her collections included Dance of the Happy Shades, Lives of Girls and Women, The Beggar Maid and Runaway, and she won the Man Booker International Prize in 2009. In 2013 she received the Nobel Prize in Literature, being cited as a master of the contemporary short story. She was frequently compared to Chekhov, and her work did much to raise the standing of the short form.
Before and after
- 15 April 1931Birth of Tomas Tranströmer
- 1 May 1931Construction of Empire State Building
- 27 May 1931Construction of Chrysler Building
- 3 June 1931Birth of Raúl Castro
- 10 July 1931Birth of Alice Munro
- 11 July 1931Construction of Ernst-Happel-Stadion
- 8 August 1931Birth of Roger Penrose
- from 18 September 1931 to 27 February 1932Japanese invasion of Manchuria
- 18 September 1931Mukden incident
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