Alice Munro, Nobel Prize-winning short story author, dies at 92
The Canadian writer was known for her masterfully crafted short stories. Throughout her long career, she earned a number of prestigious awards including the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2013.
by Andrew Limbong
May 14, 2024
1 minute
The writer Alice Munro has died, at the age of 92. The news was confirmed by her publisher, Penguin Random House Canada.
Munro was a craftsman, known for her intricately paced short stories that could devastate a reader., she said that living in a small town gave her the freedom to write. "I don't think I could have been so brave if I had been living in a town, competing with people on what can be called a generally higher cultural level," she said. "I was the only person I knew who wrote stories, though I didn't tell them to anybody, and as far as I knew, at least for a while, I was the only person who could do this in the world."
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