Canadian short story legend and Nobel Prize winner Alice Munro has died, she was 92.
Penguin Random House Canada said Tuesday that Munro died Monday (may13) at her home in Port Hope.
Munro was revered for spare prose and stories that probed the human condition.
Her themes evolved over the years, initially focusing on the problems of adolescent girls and later examining the difficulties of middle age.
Born in 1931 in the farming community of Wingham, Alice Laidlaw began writing as a teen.
Munro published her first story, The Dimensions of a Shadow, in a student publication in 1950.
In 1951 she married Jim Munro, whom she met during her journalism and English studies at the University of Western Ontario.
At a public event in October 2009, Munro revealed she had had heart bypass surgery and a bout with cancer.
But she still said she felt she’d been lucky in life with her health, given that her mother was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease at about age 35 and died in her mid-50s.
Munro’s frail health prevented her from travelling from Victoria to Stockholm to receive her Nobel Prize in December 2013.
Her daughter Jenny attended the lavish ceremony on behalf of her 82-year-old mother, who was the 13th woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature and the first Canadian-based
author to receive it.
