Ottawa: Nobel laureate Alice Munro, known for her mastery of short stories, has died at the age of 92.
Munro focuses his story on the frailties of the human condition as he grew up in rural Ontario.
Munro, who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2013 and the Booker International Prize for his work in 2009, has been suffering from dementia in recent years.
His editor Deborah Treisman and longtime friend David Staines confirmed to AFP that Munro died late Monday at a nursing home in Ontario.
“He is the greatest short story writer of our time,” says Staines.
Canadian Heritage Minister Pascal St-Onge described Munro as an icon of Canadian literature, while Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said “the world has lost one of its greatest storytellers”.
Despite her great success and an impressive list of literary awards, Munro has long been charming and naive as a character in her fiction.
“He’s not a socialist. In fact, he’s rarely seen in public and doesn’t follow book tours,” said American literary critic David Homel after he became world famous.
This shameless society was distinguished by Margaret Atwood, a modern Canadian literary genius.
His father, Robert Eric Laidlaw, raised foxes and poultry, and his mother was a small-town teacher.
Munro said she wanted to be a writer at the age of 11 and never doubted her career choice.
“I’m not really an intellectual,” says Munro. I don’t really have anything to do, so I don’t have anything to stop life from getting in the way for many people.”
“It always seems like magic to me.”
Munro’s first story, “Shadow Dimensions,” was published in 1950 while he was a student at the University of Western Ontario.
Munro has won the Governor General’s Award for fiction three times, the first for “Dance of Happy Shadows”, published in 1968. Who Do You Think You Are (1978) and The Progress of Love (1986) also won Canada’s highest literary award.
His short stories are often featured in the pages of prestigious magazines such as The New Yorker and The Atlantic.
His themes and writing style, which relies on stories to explain the events in his books, earned him the nickname “Chekhov”, a nickname coined by the 19th-century Russian-American writer Anton Chekhov. short story writer Cynthia Ozick.
