Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

She aligned her stories with the difficult truth-telling of Chekhov .

Decades later she remembered praising Chekhov , Hoffmansthal , Ibsen , and Strindberg , while admitting that I mocked, censured, rebuked, tore down, with reckless delight, Shaw , Yeats , Masefield , and other British dramatists.

AJ knew from an early age that she wanted to work in the theatre. At school she put together amateur productions of many of her own creations. Her first work to achieve a professional production...

She read voraciously, preferring writers with the geographical rootedness which she herself lacked: George Eliot , Thomas Hardy , Charles Dickens , and from beyond the English tradition Marcel Proust , James Joyce , Henry James

Although JJ says she is always reading contemporary young men and women writers coming out of Ireland today,in her short list of her most beloved books Ireland is just outnumbered by England and...

EJ invoked as an appropriate description of her own motivation, Flaubert 's dictum that writing comes from an inner wound. She said of Johnson 's Rasselas and Goethe 's Elective Affinities (both of which...

This volume brought ML critical acclaim. R. J. Thompson read it as establishing her position as one of the most artful and perceptive masters of the story form in our day.In Ireland, wrote the...

Allan Massie wrote in The Scotsman that Mackay's prose skips and dances. He called her one of the best short-story tellers now practising, an heir of Chekhov , who has the knack of taking the...

This particular story, however, was adapted without acknowledgment from one by Chekhov . It appears that KM 's conscience was not clear about this unmentioned debt.

KM 's stories have been credited (in Margaret Drabble 's Oxford Companion to English Literature) as the main channel through which the work of Chekhov (a major and fully-acknowledged influence on her style) reached...

Scholar Claire Tomalin suspects that this refusal had to do with KM 's unacknowledged debt to Chekhov in The Child-Who-Was-Tired. Mansfield was, however, feeling discouraged about all her work. In February, with The Garden...

KM 's letters and journals reflect an intensity of engagement with the detail of the world around her and with her own inner life: a blend of carefully nurtured skills, as well as, latterly, the...

The Selected Stories was hailed as an important literary event, and produced particularly interesting reviews from A. S. Byatt and John Updike . Byatt wrote that Munro was the equal of Chekhov or de Maupassant

Among a rich harvest of prizes and honours, AM won the Giller Prize in both 1998 and 2004. In 2002 an Alice Munro Literary Garden, just beside the museum, was dedicated in Wingham, Ontario...

This was chosen as one of the year's best books by the New York Times Book Review.Carol Shields brought a long perspective on AM 's work to her notice in the London Review...