“Have you thought you could win the Nobel?” “No, I am a woman”. That was a slap on the face for this interviewer who kept remind her that she was a woman writer.
The interviewer’s comment “simple way of thinking”!? He better reads her books to appreciate the depth and mix of emotions conveyed by her succinctness.
I read 'Runaway' a few years ago, and it really changed the way I saw literature. Munro's style is so different from anything I had ever read before. Her writing is so powerful, visceral and often shocking. A fabulous writer
Nowadays when knowledge production is very much related to educational institutions like universities and when somebody talks about different experiences and becomes inspiration for so many people it gives satisfaction to people around that world that everyone can tell their experiences whatever they are....... thanks Alice for your writing and I will read all your books near future
when she said about writing that ,she worked in a way that comforted her and pleased herself more than any thing else, i APPRECIATE VERY MUCH HER WRITING MOOD when she writes. this is a big lesson for anyone who would like to be a writer
I just read some of Alice Munro ‘s stories for the first time and she achieves exactly what she sats she tries to do. Her writing is so clear and her words so exactly chosen, that she does make readers think about their own lives; and even more than that; think about their own lives in a clearer way than they did before. Some feat. As for the interviewer, you’d think he’d brought the Nobel Prize with him and felt he deserved personal thanks. Only that could explain how crass he sounded at times. He committed the cardinal sun of saying ‘I read somewhere that you . . .’ That is so lazy, just regurgitating other articles rather than initiating his own conversation. I’m surprised she put up with him. It would have been great to see how she might write him up with her forensic clarity and her ability to choose exactly the right adverbs and adjectives to sum up people, places and things
she is an awesome person and a great writer. Her stories are so multi-dimensional and complex yet so easy to feel and relate. Also her smile is too cute.
I’m reading her first book for school and it’s been such a joy, and such an eye opening experience both in terms of content and just the fantastic range a short story can provide.
I felt uncomfortably exposed when reading Munro's work the very first time. It's like all my inner fears and unspoken secrets were suddenly open out in the light under her insightful pen. Wow, I am a woman!
She's a dazzling writer, and her short stories are brilliant. The interviewer is certainly giving her a huge amount of time to answer at her leisure, but there's something seriously wrong here. Either he knows very little about her, or he doesn't know how important she is. Or he's uncomfortable with English. It's spoken perfectly but there's an accent there. Whatever the problem is, it's a real pity. But he's the one struggling all the same - not her. She shines through.
I'm sorry but these questions are not only awful but downright rude. "You seem to have a very simple view on things" was the definite low point and what was that question about liking to write even though having hands full of housework and raising kids? How can this kind of a question even be asked in a post-1950's world?
@@jochenstossberg5427 No in fact, it didn't occur to me. I myself struggle with English as it is not my first language. Yet I would never ask such questions.
i feel wonderfully close to authors whom I admire, munro is no exception. I'm so happy watching these videos with her, and seeing her. She's obviously been a lonely person, and yet you always wonder how
lol when he says "what's so interesting about small-town Canadian life?" and they show a montage of downtown waterfront Victoria BC. My Nobel dudes, that is not small town Canada. Victoria remains a metropolis to me coming from a resource town, population 2000, and yes, you would have to be there to understand. They don't lol. Alice though gives a voice to her own small towns. Thank you Alice.
This interviewer cannot get past himself; so many of his questions are gendered and banal. Alice Munro deserves better. Wonderful writer and storyteller, she manages to go beyond the tedious questions.
I had the exact same feeling about Andersen's sad story. I am discovering Alice now in my English Lit class, and I am quite fascinated!! thanks for this
Ths interview is really insightful, she has honestly told how her journey was as a writer, and phases and situations a person faces when they want to be a writer.
The interviewer must think that he sounds thoroughly progressive by associating her gender with everything she writes, but he comes off as disrespectful and condescending...
I think this can be easily misunderstood. While she doesn't want to emphasize the role necessarily, highlighting it is a signal that part of the appreciation of her work comes from the female perspective. There is a demand to bring that aspect into focus. There isn't a lot of harm here.
Munro is the best. The area of southern Ontario is a land I am well familiar with. In the 1970's, I spent much of my summers in Seaforth, Dublin and Goderich in the land that my 1840's Irish ancestors settled and chopped down all the trees, to plant and survive. Clinton is north of these towns. My grandfather was still alive, living in Dublin in a beautiful old farmhouse on the main street and attending Mass at St. Patrick's on Saturday afternoon.
Wow, it’s hard to articulate how much her stories have meant to me, and how much I will continue to read and love her writing and stories as long as I have the privilege to enjoy them. Thank you Alice I love you.
thankyou for all your contributions....you have certainly gained so much admiration and respect in your life of literature...and putting wingham on the map. i always wanted to meet you & was very tempted when you lived in clinton...but was too shy at that time. i came from wingham also...dad talked about you with me on occassion...all good.
I just read Lives of Girls and Women. Hilarious. I wanted to read someone , my mother's age, from small town Ontario (like me), who's ancestors lineage are embedded in Ontario's history. She's got so much patience, so detailed. One must be very calm, feel very safe in the world to write like A.M. I compare her to Mavis Gallant. Very detailed, ,introspective, insightful. Empowering for women.
I'm always impressed by how many poor people live in detached homes in the USA and Canada. I know that not all do but a great many seem to. In Scotland most poor people are herded into dreadful high rise flats and run-down tenements. In the main, only the well-off enjoy the luxury of a detached property. There again, in Scotland only a tiny minority continue to own most of the land. This is a reality that most fellow Scots don't want to acknowledge as a fact.
She is absolutely wonderful. And I agree, the guy has not read a single page of her work. He says: You seem to have a very simple view on things. She says: Do I? Laughing. You could spend like years on a Lacanian analysis of any of her stories and would not get very far (not even Zizek would). She has been there, everywhere, I am sure, she says she practically lived in that bookstore. But it really takes an institutional dumbhead like this one to buy the "simple view". Eat more chocolate, read more Munro.
Is this an interview about feminism or writing!?! The guy interviewing her steers everything toward gender. One question about how gender played a role in her writing would have been enough. He destroyed this interview. It was very uncomfortable to watch.
Exactly. There are three sorts of writers: good ones and bad ones; and great ones like her. And there are three sorts of interviewers: good ones and bad ones; and truly terrible ones like him.
I just don't get cold, dry interviewers. The whole point's to connect with the real person behind the image. She's looking at him like a lion watches a mouse puff out his chest...amused enough to humor the whole thing...makes for a funny story later
This interviewer is so offensive in his constant harping on her sex instead of the work she accomplished. It's incredibly rude - "you seem to have a simple view of things..." and more. I find this so offensive I can't give it a thumbs up, and I love Munro and her work.
i wonder what's going on in her mind .... if this interview occurred ten years ago, she would have been informed by her daughter that her step-father had sexually assaulted her from age nine until she was a teenager. And Alice Munro did .... nothing. Does this kind of maternal criminal behaviour cancel her literary accomplishments? Probably not, but maybe we will read between the lines when we read her again.
After hearing Alice Munro daughters story of how her mother protected her pedophile step father, I wonder if we exalt some of the most depraved people with awards like this.
“Have you thought you could win the Nobel?” “No, I am a woman”. That was a slap on the face for this interviewer who kept remind her that she was a woman writer.
She is more polite and kind to this interviewer than he deserves. Very classy.
Truly the most dreadful questions to the most brilliant author ... As though the only people who read her are women! More than ironic ...
It is not what he deserves, but what her heart has to offer!
R.i.p. Alice Munro😢
Not his mother language. But yes, beautiful how sweet she was
"You just have to be there." That's what every story of hers does: puts you THERE. She's magnificent.
I just love her.
Reuven Pinnat
yes she's great.
The interviewer’s comment “simple way of thinking”!? He better reads her books to appreciate the depth and mix of emotions conveyed by her succinctness.
I read 'Runaway' a few years ago, and it really changed the way I saw literature. Munro's style is so different from anything I had ever read before. Her writing is so powerful, visceral and often shocking. A fabulous writer
I NEVER WRITTEN IN A CONSCIOUS WAY; in my view this is the most important think that a serious writer should learn from this inspired interview
Nowadays when knowledge production is very much related to educational institutions like universities and when somebody talks about different experiences and becomes inspiration for so many people it gives satisfaction to people around that world that everyone can tell their experiences whatever they are....... thanks Alice for your writing and I will read all your books near future
when she said about writing that ,she worked in a way that comforted her and pleased herself more than any thing else, i APPRECIATE VERY MUCH HER WRITING MOOD when she writes. this is a big lesson for anyone who would like to be a writer
I just read some of Alice Munro ‘s stories for the first time and she achieves exactly what she sats she tries to do. Her writing is so clear and her words so exactly chosen, that she does make readers think about their own lives; and even more than that; think about their own lives in a clearer way than they did before. Some feat.
As for the interviewer, you’d think he’d brought the Nobel Prize with him and felt he deserved personal thanks. Only that could explain how crass he sounded at times. He committed the cardinal sun of saying ‘I read somewhere that you . . .’ That is so lazy, just regurgitating other articles rather than initiating his own conversation. I’m surprised she put up with him. It would have been great to see how she might write him up with her forensic clarity and her ability to choose exactly the right adverbs and adjectives to sum up people, places and things
Reading Runway. Fantastic writer of short stories. The nobel prize was deserved.
A good interviewer creates conversation and evolves the interaction while bringing insights from the writing imo.
she is an awesome person and a great writer. Her stories are so multi-dimensional and complex yet so easy to feel and relate.
Also her smile is too cute.
well said! can't agree with you more!
I’m reading her first book for school and it’s been such a joy, and such an eye opening experience both in terms of content and just the fantastic range a short story can provide.
I felt uncomfortably exposed when reading Munro's work the very first time. It's like all my inner fears and unspoken secrets were suddenly open out in the light under her insightful pen. Wow, I am a woman!
Killing you softly with her prose. What an utter genius she was, and left us with so many gifts to return to again and again.
She's absolutely lovely. So humble and authentic.
relic of a bygone era
Such a profoundly moving and humane author, her stories continually amaze and unsettle me.
She's a dazzling writer, and her short stories are brilliant. The interviewer is certainly giving her a huge amount of time to answer at her leisure, but there's something seriously wrong here. Either he knows very little about her, or he doesn't know how important she is. Or he's uncomfortable with English. It's spoken perfectly but there's an accent there. Whatever the problem is, it's a real pity. But he's the one struggling all the same - not her. She shines through.
I'm sorry but these questions are not only awful but downright rude.
"You seem to have a very simple view on things" was the definite low point and what was that question about liking to write even though having hands full of housework and raising kids? How can this kind of a question even be asked in a post-1950's world?
Couldn't agree more. It was unbearable the way he was behaving
Has it occurred to you that he's struggling with English? There's an accent in there. A literary student maybe?
@@jochenstossberg5427 No in fact, it didn't occur to me. I myself struggle with English as it is not my first language. Yet I would never ask such questions.
i feel wonderfully close to authors whom I admire, munro is no exception. I'm so happy watching these videos with her, and seeing her. She's obviously been a lonely person, and yet you always wonder how
one of my all-time favorite writers. really nice to see this interview. she's very deserving of the prize.
“How many stories have you thrown away?” “When I was young, I threw them all away.”
What an awesome woman! I'm a brazillian writer and her life, her stories inspires me. This video is awesome. Thank you!
My favourite. I know I wouldn't ever find another writer like her.
lol when he says "what's so interesting about small-town Canadian life?" and they show a montage of downtown waterfront Victoria BC. My Nobel dudes, that is not small town Canada. Victoria remains a metropolis to me coming from a resource town, population 2000, and yes, you would have to be there to understand. They don't lol. Alice though gives a voice to her own small towns. Thank you Alice.
Great writer! How annoying that the interviewer only sees her as a "Women's Writer for Women". I doubt he's read anything she's written.
She is a women's writer who writes for women. stop playing on the interweb.
everything we have to read in school has that agenda...so I understand the perspective
so true!!! UGH
@@skyjuiceification she’s a woman writing stories. Who reads them are up to them.
That’s boloney isn’t it I’ve read her stuff and I think she’s brilliant and I’m guy.
This interviewer cannot get past himself; so many of his questions are gendered and banal. Alice Munro deserves better. Wonderful writer and storyteller, she manages to go beyond the tedious questions.
I think he's struggling with English.
What an honest, natural interview! I'm planning to use it for my CanLit classes. Thank you, Alice Munro.
I had the exact same feeling about Andersen's sad story. I am discovering Alice now in my English Lit class, and I am quite fascinated!! thanks for this
R.i.p. Alice Munro😢
Ths interview is really insightful, she has honestly told how her journey was as a writer, and phases and situations a person faces when they want to be a writer.
Rest in peace. She was a queen of short stories…
Actually she was more co-Conspirator to her pedophile lowlife husband
Dear Alice, we grew up with the same stories
She is so cute and honest and lovable!!
The interviewer must think that he sounds thoroughly progressive by associating her gender with everything she writes, but he comes off as disrespectful and condescending...
I think this can be easily misunderstood. While she doesn't want to emphasize the role necessarily, highlighting it is a signal that part of the appreciation of her work comes from the female perspective. There is a demand to bring that aspect into focus. There isn't a lot of harm here.
@@nickhall1632 if you can't see the harm you're part of the problem ...
Munro is the best. The area of southern Ontario is a land I am well familiar with. In the 1970's, I spent much of my summers in Seaforth, Dublin and Goderich in the land that my 1840's Irish ancestors settled and chopped down all the trees, to plant and survive. Clinton is north of these towns. My grandfather was still alive, living in Dublin in a beautiful old farmhouse on the main street and attending Mass at St. Patrick's on Saturday afternoon.
I find the Southwestern Ontario way of life an integral part of my character. Alice Munro is easy for me to relate to.
She deserved a much better interviewer!
What a great writer!❤
I love her very much❤
She published in The New Yorker for years. One of the best ever.
I love her laughter. I am enjoying your stories , Ms. Munro. Thank you for your wit and humour. 🤗☺️
Thanks Alice Munro for sharing your masterpiece!!! I love you and all your works!
Alice Munro is great. Love her work. She deserved a better interviewer. I'm sure the Swedish Academy could find someone better.
Wow, it’s hard to articulate how much her stories have meant to me, and how much I will continue to read and love her writing and stories as long as I have the privilege to enjoy them. Thank you Alice I love you.
May Almighty GOD Rest the soul of Alice Munro in Eternal Peace
thankyou for all your contributions....you have certainly gained so much admiration and respect in your life of literature...and putting wingham on the map. i always wanted to meet you & was very tempted when you lived in clinton...but was too shy at that time. i came from wingham also...dad talked about you with me on occassion...all good.
RIP Ms. Munro.
Canada's national treasure, and this country's pride.
I just read Lives of Girls and Women. Hilarious. I wanted to read someone , my mother's age, from small town Ontario (like me), who's ancestors lineage are embedded in Ontario's history. She's got so much patience, so detailed. One must be very calm, feel very safe in the world to write like A.M. I compare her to Mavis Gallant. Very detailed, ,introspective, insightful. Empowering for women.
RIP Madam
Well Alice, we do enjoy your books. A lot.
Honest answers and I love it
Thank you Nobel Prize for posting this video.
Awful interviewer. So angry listening to him belittling her work and asking inane questions
Wait, is this the same Alice Munro from the student exchange debate in 1959?
Thank you! You are such a big being!!!
I'm always impressed by how many poor people live in detached homes in the USA and Canada. I know that not all do but a great many seem to. In Scotland most poor people are herded into dreadful high rise flats and run-down tenements. In the main, only the well-off enjoy the luxury of a detached property. There again, in Scotland only a tiny minority continue to own most of the land. This is a reality that most fellow Scots don't want to acknowledge as a fact.
She is absolutely wonderful. And I agree, the guy has not read a single page of her work. He says: You seem to have a very simple view on things. She says: Do I? Laughing. You could spend like years on a Lacanian analysis of any of her stories and would not get very far (not even Zizek would). She has been there, everywhere, I am sure, she says she practically lived in that bookstore. But it really takes an institutional dumbhead like this one to buy the "simple view". Eat more chocolate, read more Munro.
what does eating chocolate have to do with this??😂😂
Your stories most certainly move me Alice, they do.
Yes Exactly. What Grace This Woman Has. Maybe a Few of Us Can Find This Secret? Or maybe not, as She has Been Blessed. Tks be to God Amen 🙏 🙌 ❤️
WE LOVE ALICE, V KOOL!
Reading your shortstories !!!😍😍
*I LOVE SHORT STORIES*
*I LOVE THE WORKS OF ALICE MUNRO*
*REMARKABLE WOMAN* 😌 😌 😌
Why you love her works
Wow,, she´s amazing...
What a wonderfull person!
I just love her!
RIP🙏🏼
She's so Canadian!
Is this an interview about feminism or writing!?! The guy interviewing her steers everything toward gender. One question about how gender played a role in her writing would have been enough. He destroyed this interview. It was very uncomfortable to watch.
Exactly. There are three sorts of writers: good ones and bad ones; and great ones like her. And there are three sorts of interviewers: good ones and bad ones; and truly terrible ones like him.
I just don't get cold, dry interviewers. The whole point's to connect with the real person behind the image. She's looking at him like a lion watches a mouse puff out his chest...amused enough to humor the whole thing...makes for a funny story later
I loved watching her interview can any one guide which book is her best one for anyone
RIP
R.I.P .This planet is too small for you.
reading “Dear Life” in quarantine
This interviewer is so offensive in his constant harping on her sex instead of the work she accomplished. It's incredibly rude - "you seem to have a simple view of things..." and more. I find this so offensive I can't give it a thumbs up, and I love Munro and her work.
Writer that to inspiration so powerful and To introduce in their world of imagination❤🌍
LOVE
She didnt give her daughter a good ending..
At 13:00 good quote as to the impact of her writing...
So beautiful human being ❤️
i wonder what's going on in her mind .... if this interview occurred ten years ago, she would have been informed by her daughter that her step-father had sexually assaulted her from age nine until she was a teenager. And Alice Munro did .... nothing. Does this kind of maternal criminal behaviour cancel her literary accomplishments? Probably not, but maybe we will read between the lines when we read her again.
great
This fragile but willed woman reminds me of my mom.
Her first story was a fanfiction lol
Lol 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
So true!
Suggest me some books of her.....
Friend of My Youth and Dear Life are my favorite collections I’ve read so far but you can find lots of her best stories in the New Yorker.
Runaway and Too Much Happiness are great too
After hearing Alice Munro daughters story of how her mother protected her pedophile step father, I wonder if we exalt some of the most depraved people with awards like this.
👍👌👏👏👏👏👏🙏
And the English speakers keep winning the Nobel prize... the Swedish academy only read in English or what?
I’m sorry. Have you actually seen the list of winners from the last thirty years?
What a hypocrite..