Alice Monroe Introduction

Alice Monroe, a Canadian female writer, is known as "Chokov of Canada." Alice Monroe was born in Ottawa, Canada, in 1931. She spends most of her time in this quiet city, and she started writing novels when she was a girl. Monroe is known for his short stories. As of October 2019, he has created 11 short story collections and a novel with a similar story collection. In 1968, Monroe published the first short story collection "Happy Shadow Dance" and won the Canadian Governor's Literature Award. His masterpieces include "Good Shadow Dance" and "Escape". Monroe has won numerous awards, including three Canadian Governors' Awards, two Gilles Awards, and the Commonwealth Writers' Award, the O'Henley Award, the PEN Malamud Prize, and the National Book Reviewer Award. In 2019, he won the 3rd Booker International Award. On October 10, 2019, Alice Monroe won the 2019 Nobel Prize in Literature for the following reason: "The Master of Contemporary Short Stories." Alice Monroe is the 13th in the history of the Nobel Prize for Literature. Female writer.

Introduction

Born in Canada in 1931. He has lived in a remote and tranquil place for a long time, and gradually formed a writing style with the theme of ordinary life of ordinary women in suburban towns. The background of the story is mostly rural towns and their neighborhoods. The story characters are the same as those in reality. They also experience birth and death, marriage and divorce. But behind the words of earthy aroma, it is a description of the serious issues of growth pain and illness. Fine and elegant, without the use of lead text and simple and exquisite, wide and heavy plots, often give people a "sound in the silent listening to thunder".

In 1968, "Happy Shadow Dance" first snorted and won the Canadian Governor's Literature Award. Since then, "My Youth Friends" "Who do you think you are?" "Love Process", "Open Secrets", "A Good Woman's Love", "Shicheng Yuanwang" and more than a dozen works have won the Governor Award, Gilles Awards, the Commonwealth Writers Award, the Lainan Literature Award, the O. Henry Award, and the National Book Reviewers Association Awards. The work has been translated into 13 languages ​​and spread throughout the world. It has been highly praised by readers and the media and has been hailed as “the greatest contemporary short story writer”.

In May 2019, due to the consistently high level of work and great influence around the world, the 3rd Booker International Literature Award was undisputedly awarded. As a masterpiece, the impact of the huge "Escape" was published in 2004, immediately provoked praise, quickly won the Canadian Gilles Literature Award, and was selected as the "New York Times" book of the year.

At 7:00 pm on October 10, 2019, the 2019 Nobel Prize in Literature was announced, and Canadian writer Alice Monroe was honored. According to CNN, Alice Munro is the first Canadian nationality writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, and Sol Bey, who was born in Quebec, Canada in 1976, was considered an American writer when he moved to the United States at a young age.

Major works

"Happy Shadow Dance", first won the Canadian Governor's Literature Award

"My Youth Friends"

"Who do you think you are?", two won the Canadian Governor's Literature Award

"The Process of Love", three won the Canadian Governor's Literature Award

Open Secret

"The Love of a Kind Woman"

"Hate, friendship, courtship, love, marriage"

"Escape", won the Canadian Gilles Literature Award, and was selected into the "New York Times" annual book.

Carried away : a selection of stories

"The progress of love"

Too much happiness

Introduction of works

"Escape" is Monroe's masterpiece, selected as the "New York Times" book of the year, the French "Reading" magazine's best foreign novel of the year, won the Canadian Literature Award Gillette Award and other literary awards, the writer also won the first The 3rd Booker International Awards.

"Escape" consists of eight stories. The heroes of the eight stories are all women, and they all live in Canadian towns. Their daily life details are long lost in contemporary novels. Farm work, desserts, and broth Daily communication, diary and letters in a thousand words; the scenery they are looking at is also something we have never seen before, maples, wild chrysanthemums, rainy afternoons, lines on the carpet; most of the old and sick deaths they experienced It is Margaret Atwood's so-called "death caused by the power of nature", died in a shipwreck, or bad weather, all of which are highly Canadian, suggesting the geographical attributes and cultural identity of the author. However, in their lives, the sinister modernity has not been reduced. "Escape" is the tragic opportunity given to them by modern society. In Juliet's "The Opportunity", "Hurry" and "Silence", Juliet fled the girls' school. The faculty went to follow the fisherman who met by chance. Her father fled the original life to become a farmer. Her daughter suddenly left home, abandoned her, and lived a rich life in another place. "Escape" can be regarded as a "conceptual novel collection". The eight stories are faintly unified by a concept and a temperament. The life background, encounters and emotions of the characters are similar. The eight stories are not isolated, and the charm is also Not blocked, mixed together to form a long roll. This traditional upstream is Sherwood Anderson and James Joyce, a little bigger, and Faulkner.

Creative characteristics

In 2019, the 81-year-old Monroe was born in Ottawa and spends most of his time in this quiet city. Her novels are also written about the love and family life of the civilians in the suburban towns of the city, but they are all related to the serious theme of life and death. The female writer's brushstrokes are simple and simple, but delicately portrays the plain and true face of life, bringing people a very deep and deep emotion, simple words bring rich emotions, which just shows the most essential energy of literature. American Jewish writer Cynthia Ozick even called Monroe "the contemporary Chekhov", and in many European and American media comments, she gave her the title of "the greatest contemporary novelist".

It is reported that many of her early creations were completed by the children's grunts or waiting for the oven. In fact, it took 20 years before "Happy Shadow Dance" to finish writing. In 1978, her other novel collection, "Who do you think you are?", gave her a Governor's Award. In the 1980s and 1990s, she published a collection of short stories every four years. Enjoy world-class reputation.

Most of Monroe’s stories are women’s stories. In her early creations, she was a girl who had just entered family life, suffering from love, sex, betrayal, children, etc. In the later period, she was in middle-aged crisis and trivial life. Women who are struggling, but they all have desires and regrets, with strong and weak points.

Time-space conversion is a common method used by Monroe to create novels, which combines memory and real life. This also shows the viewpoint she wants to express: Looking at the world, perhaps with a new perspective, literature can help people to re-recognize world. She once introduced the way of reading novels in an essay: "The novel is not like a road. It is more like a house. You walk inside, wait a little while, walk here, turn around, observe the room and The connections between the corridors, then look out the window and see what happens to the outside world from this perspective."

Alice Monroe's work can often be read in important American literary publications such as The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, and the Paris Review. She has published a new collection of novels almost every two or three years. She has won the most important Governor's Award in Canada three times and won the Gilles Award twice.

Perhaps it can be said that Monroe is a "top-fetched" in the creation of English short stories, the British female writer AS. Byatt also praised her as "the greatest short story writer in the world." China's "World Literature" and other publications have repeatedly translated and commented on her works.