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Which Alice Munro book was awarded the first Governor General's Award?

  • Dance of the Happy Shades

  • Something I’ve Been Meaning to Tell You

  • Dear Life

  • Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage

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Dance of the Happy Shades is the debut short story collection by Canadian author Alice Munro. It was published in 1968 and won the first Governor General's Award for Fiction. The stories in the collection are set in rural Ontario and explore the lives of women in small-town Canada. Munro's writing is often praised for its clarity, precision, and attention to detail.
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