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Alice Munro, Canadian Nobel-winning author, dies
The Globe and Mail newspaper, citing family members, said Munro had been suffering from dementia for at least a decade.
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Canadian author Alice Munro, who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2013 and the Man Booker International Prize in 2009, died on Monday at the age of 92, the Globe and Mail newspaper reported Tuesday.
The Canadian newspaper said that according to family members, Munro had been suffering from dementia for at least a decade and died at a nursing home in the Canadian province of Ontario.
Among the writer's best-known works are "Lives of Girls and Women" (1971), "The Moons of Jupiter" (1982), "The Love of a Good Woman" (1998) and "Runaway" (2004).
Munro published more than a dozen collections of stories and was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2013. Her stories explored desire, disappointment, aging, moral conflict and other themes in rural settings she knew intimately — the small towns and farms of Canada's Ontario province, where she lived. She was a master of developing complex characters within the limited pages of a short story.
Munro, who wrote about ordinary people with clarity and realism, was often compared to Anton Chekhov, the 19th-century Russian master of the short story — a comparison the Swedish Academy cited in awarding her the Nobel.
She also won the Man Booker International Prize in 2009 and the Giller Prize — Canada's top literary award — twice.
[News updated at 5:17 p.m.]
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