Nobel Prize-winning Canadian writer Alice Munro, whose exquisitely crafted tales of the loves, ambitions and travails of small-town women in her native land made her a globally acclaimed master of the short story, has died at the age of 92, her publisher said on Tuesday.
Item 1 of 2 Author Elizabeth Hay holds the Giller Prize, Canada's richest literary award, for her novel "Late Nights On Air" as she is congratulated by fellow Canadian writer Alice Munroe at the end of the Giller awards ceremony in Toronto November 6, 2007.
Munro published more than a dozen collections of short stories and was honored with the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2013. Calling her a "master of the contemporary short story," the Academy also said: "Her texts often feature depictions of everyday but decisive events, epiphanies of a kind, that illuminate the surrounding story and let existential questions appear in a flash of lightning."
"Last month I reread all of Alice Munro's books. I felt the need to be close to her. Every time I read her is a new experience. Every time changes me. She will live forever," leading Canadian author Heather O'Neill said in a post on X. "For years and years, I thought that stories were just practice, 'til I got time to write a novel. Then I found that they were all I could do and so I faced that. I suppose that my trying to get so much into stories has been a compensation," Munro told the New Yorker magazine in 2012.
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