Nobel laureate in literature Alice Munro has died in Canada

The Nobel Prize laureate in literature and winner of the International Booker Prize, the Canadian writer Alice Munro, died at the age of 93. The Globe and Mail reported this on Tuesday, May 14, citing representatives of the writer’s family. .

It was noted that the writer had suffered from dementia for “many years.” He died on Monday, May 13, at a nursing home in Ontario.

Alice Munro was born on July 10, 1931 in Canada. He studied English and journalism at the University of Western Ontario. In 1950, his story “The Measurement of a Shadow” was picked up by Canadian radio station CBC, and he soon quit teaching.

Her first collection, Dance of the Happy Shadows, published in 1968, received Canada’s highest literary award, the Governor General’s Award. In 1978 and 1986, Munro received the same prize for the collections “Who Are You, Exactly?” and “Development of Love”. In 1997 he received the PEN Prize, and in 2009 he won the Man Booker International Prize for his work. In 2013, Alice Munro was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature as a “master of modern storytelling.”

In total, during her creative career, Munro released 14 collections of short stories, the last of which, “Dear Life,” was published in 2012. Alice Munro’s books have been translated in more than 20 languages. Several short stories were filmed.

Notably, the 2016 film Juliet was based on three of Munro’s short stories.

We remind you that the Ukrainian writer Dmitry Kapranov died in April.