The Canadian author Alice Munro, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, passed away on Monday at the age of 92, as reported by The Globe and Mail, citing family members of the deceased.
Alice Munro, who in 2013 became the first Canadian author to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, had been suffering from dementia for at least a decade.
Munro’s work has been described as revolutionary for the architecture of short stories, especially in their tendency to move forward and backward in time. Her stories have been said to “embody more than they present, reveal more than they display.”
Munro’s fiction is most often set in her hometown of Huron Province in southwestern Ontario. Her stories explore human complexity in a simple prose style. Munro’s writing had established her as “one of the greatest modern fiction writers”, or, as Cynthia Ozick puts it, “our Chekhov”.
Munro has been the recipient of numerous literary awards, including the 2013 Nobel Prize in Literature for her work as a “master of the modern short story”, and the 2009 Man Booker International Prize for her body of work. She was also a three-time winner of the Governor General’s Award for fiction and was the recipient of the 1996 Marian Engel Award from the Writers’ Guild of Canada, as well as the 2004 Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize for The Fugitive.
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