Which Alice Munro collection was shortlisted for the 1980 Booker Prize?

The Beggar Maid was the title under which an Alice Munro collection was shortlisted for the 1980 Booker Prize. It is the international title of Munro’s Canadian collection Who Do You Think You Are?, subtitled Stories of Flo and Rose.

The book is a linked sequence of short stories about Rose, a woman from a rural working-class background, and her complicated friendship with Flo. Its stories trace social mobility, memory, class and identity across different stages of Rose’s life.

The title variation can cause confusion: Canadian editions used Who Do You Think You Are?, while the Booker listing used The Beggar Maid. It was notable as the only short-story collection shortlisted for the Booker Prize until the award’s later history introduced other forms of short fiction.