Nobel Prize-winning Canadian author Alice Munro has died at the age of 92.
According to a report by the British news agency BBC, Canadian writer Alice Munro, who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2013, has died at the age of 92.
Alice Munro wrote short stories for more than 60 years, many of which focused on rural Canadian life.
She died Monday night in Port Hope, Ontario, her family and publisher confirmed. Alice Munro was often compared to Russian author Anton Chekhov, the report said.
His first major breakthrough came in 1968 when his short story collection Dance of the Happy Shades won Canada’s highest literary honor, the Governor General’s Award.
He has published more than a dozen collections of short stories, and in the 1950s and 1960s his stories were broadcast on CBC and appeared in several Canadian magazines.
The Nobel committee called the author “a master of the contemporary short story”. Her last collection of short stories, Dear Life, was published in 2012.
