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Many of Munro's stories are set in Huron County, Ontario . Her strong regional focus is one of the features of her fiction. Another is the omniscient narrator who serves to make sense of the world. pare Munro's small-town settings to writers from the rural South of the United States. As in the works of William Faulkner and Flannery O'Connor , her characters often confront deep-rooted customs and traditions, but the reaction of Munro's characters is generally less intense than their Southern counterparts'. Her male characters tend to capture the essence of the everyman , while her female characters are plex. Much of Munro's work exemplifies the literary genre known as Southern Ontario Gothic . Original short-story collections · Dance of the Happy Shades – 1968 (winner of the 1968 Governor General's Award for Fiction ) ? Lives of Girls and Women – 1971 ? Something I've Been Meaning to Tell You – 1974 ? Who Do You Think You Are? – 1978 (winner of the 1978 Governor General's Award for Fiction ; also published as The Beggar Maid ) ? The Moons of Jupiter – 1982 (nominated for a Governor General's Award ) ? The Progress of Love – 1986 (winner of the 1986 Governor General's Award for Fiction ) ? Friend of My Youth – 1990 (winner of the Trillium Book Award ) ? Open Secrets – 1994 (nominated for a Governor General's Award ) ? The Love ofa Good Woman – 1998 (winner of the 1998 Giller Priz