{"id":17965,"date":"2024-05-14T20:05:00","date_gmt":"2024-05-14T18:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/?p=17965"},"modified":"2024-05-22T15:17:50","modified_gmt":"2024-05-22T13:17:50","slug":"alice-munro-obituary-alice-munro-the-guardian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/?p=17965","title":{"rendered":"Alice Munro obituary | Alice Munro | The Guardian"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Canadian short-story writer who won the Nobel prize in 2013 and was often likened to Chekhov and Guy de Maupassant<br>\u2014 Read on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2024\/may\/14\/alice-munro-obituary\">www.theguardian.com\/books\/2024\/may\/14\/alice-munro-obituary<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-text-color has-dark-red-color has-alpha-channel-opacity has-dark-red-background-color has-background is-style-default\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">The death has just been announced of the truly great Canadian writer, Alice Munro. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/article\/2024\/may\/14\/alice-munro-nobel-winner-and-titan-of-the-short-story-dies-aged-92\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Lots to read<\/a> at <em>The Guardian<\/em> and, of course,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/05\/14\/books\/alice-munro-dead.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"> at <em>The New York Times<\/em><\/a>, including from earlier this year an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/article\/best-alice-munro-books-stories.html\">&#8220;Essential Alice Munro&#8221;<\/a>  (astutely subtitled with the prerequisite for reading Munro being simply to have lived!)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse has-text-align-center has-dark-red-color has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-69b94f42367fc78f0366ce856d62a17a\">Sent<br> a life as long<br> as said stories short.<br>Said therein<br> much more than most.<br>Surely to live long,<br>much longer than most<br> mere mortal days<br> here spent.<br><em><br>- Anne Dromache, May, 2024.<\/em><\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canadian short-story writer who won the Nobel prize in 2013 and was often likened to Chekhov and Guy de Maupassant\u2014 Read on www.theguardian.com\/books\/2024\/may\/14\/alice-munro-obituary The death has just been announced of the truly great Canadian writer, Alice Munro. Lots to read at The Guardian and, of course, at The New York Times, including from earlier this &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/?p=17965\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Alice Munro obituary | Alice Munro | The Guardian&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[149,23],"tags":[491],"class_list":["post-17965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-literature","category-writers-2","tag-alice-munro"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17965"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17965\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17997,"href":"https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17965\/revisions\/17997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}