Munro
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Alice (Laidlaw) born 1931, Canadian short-story writer.
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H(ector) H(ugh) Saki, 1870–1916, Scottish novelist and short-story writer, born in Myanmar (Burma).
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Alice, original name Alice Laidlaw. born 1931, Canadian short-story writer; her books include Lives of Girls and Women (1971), The Moons of Jupiter (1982), and The Love of a Good Woman (1999); winner of the Booker international prize (2009) for a lifetime body of work
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H ( ector ) H ( ugh ), pen name Saki. 1870–1916, Scottish author, born in Burma (now Myanmar), noted for his collections of satirical short stories, such as Reginald (1904) and Beasts and Superbeasts (1914)
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Etymology
Origin of Munro
C20: named after Hugh Thomas Munro (1856–1919), who published a list of these in 1891
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He is somewhat reminiscent of Ferdinand the Bull from Munro Leaf’s 1936 picture book, carted into the bullfighting ring but refusing to fight.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026
The first barrier to treatment, Munro said, is that a lot of people believe they are "normal headaches".
From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026
If a single power source could be said to have fueled the creative work of Alice Munro, the only Canadian to win the Nobel Prize in literature, it would be her ambivalence about her mother.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
For now, I am reminded of the comment made by “Saki,” aka Hector Hugh Munro, a famous English writer from over 100 years ago.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 24, 2026
As Mark Munro of the MIT Technology Review has written, “Our future prosperity is not going to come from buying more stuff, but from doing more for each other.”
From "1919 The Year That Changed America" by Martin W. Sandler
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