Shelf AwarenessIn parts of western Canada, Nobel laureate Alice Munro is also known as a former bookseller: in 1963, she and her ex-husband, Jim Munro, founded Munro's Books, Victoria, B.C., which last month celebrated its 50th birthday.
Last Thursday, the day Alice Munro won the Nobel, was Jim Munro's 84th birthday. Speaking about his ex-wife with the Vancouver Sun, he said, "One time, working in the store, she said, 'I can write better than these people,' so from then on she quit the store and stayed home and wrote."
He added that Munro was "pretty well bowled over by" the Nobel announcement. "But I'm not surprised because I've seen other people who have won the award and her writing is certainly on the quality."
He also told the paper that in her writing, she is "extremely observant, very meticulous, very good with dialogue. With a short story you have to make a person seem real very quickly and she does that."
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