That is the question as the literary world debates Nobel laureate Alice Munro's work in the aftermath of her daughter's revelations
Alice Munro, the Canadian writer who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2013, died on May 13 this year at the age of 92. Two months after her death, Munro바카라s daughter, Andrea Skinner, disclosed in an essay in Toronto Star that her stepfather had sexually abused her for years바카라the first time when she was nine years old.
Skinner told her mother the truth when she was an adult, but Munro did not react with 바카라concern or support바카라, but 바카라as if she had learned of an infidelity바카라. Munro also continued to stay with her husband till his death. This revelation has sparked a global controversy on Munro바카라s complicity in her daughter바카라s abuse.
The literary world is now debating the impacts of a patriarchal system, the painful culture of silence in our society and Munro바카라s legacy.
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