Alice Munro Tribute

The Municipality of Central Huron is saddened to hear of Alice Munro's passing. 

Alice Munro was a trailblazer in women's fiction and revered globally as the "master of the contemporary short story." She is the winner of the 2009 Man Booker International Prize and a three-time winner of Canada's Governor General's Award for fiction. In 2013, she won the Nobel Prize for Literature - the only Canadian to do so. In 2018, a monument honouring her and her literary achievements was installed outside of the Clinton Library on Rattenbury Street. 

She resided in Clinton for more than 25 years until 2019 when she moved to Port Hope, ON to be closer to her family. 

The rural communities and landscapes of Huron County provides inspiration to the central themes and imagery used in Alice Munro's work. Her vivid storytelling leaves a lasting legacy: "Memory is the way we keep telling ourselves our stories - and telling other people a somewhat different version of our stories" (Munro, 2010). 

Municipal flags have been lowered to half-mast. 

Photo of Alice Munro from the archival collection of the Huron County Museum. Object ID: 2023.0028.064

The monument outside of Clinton Library on Rattenbury Street, Clinton, ON.