She is a writer of stories - "short stories", as they used to be called, or "short fiction", which is now more common. Though her fiction has been a regular feature of the New Yorker since the 1970s, her recent elevation to international literary sainthood took as long as it did partly because of the form in which she writes. To date - and including her latest, the rapturously received Runaway (2004) - she has published 10 collections, averaging nine or 10 stories each. Munro has been writing since the 1960s, and her first collection, Dance of the Happy Shades, appeared in 1968. She's the kind of writer about whom it is often said - no matter how well known she becomes - that she ought to be better known. Among writers, her name is spoken in hushed tones. She's been accorded armfuls of super-superlatives by critics in both North America and Britain, she's won many awards, and she has a devoted international readership. A lice Munro is among the major writers of English fiction of our time.
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