Facts about Alice Munro, first Canadian woman to win Nobel Prize for literature

Alice Munro has won the Nobel Prize for literature. A look at her life:

Age: 82

From: Born in Wingham, Ont. She now splits her time between Clinton, Ont., and Comox, B.C.

First work published: 1968’s short-story collection “Dance of the Happy Shades,” which won a Governor General’s Literary Award.

Most recent work published: 2012’s “Dear Life.”

Awards Munro has previously won: Three Governor General’s Literary Awards, two Scotiabank Giller Prizes, the Commonwealth Writers Prize, the Man Booker International Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Trillium Book Award, the Rea Award for the Short Story, the Marian Engel Award.

Did you know? Munro and her first husband, James, opened Munro’s Books in Victoria’s Old Town in 1963 — exactly 50 years ago. The store mainly stocked paperbacks at a time when it wasn’t fashionable to do so. The store has switched locations twice but remains open a half-century later.