Canadian Author Alice Munro Passes Away at 92: Nobel Prize Winner Referred to as ‘Canada Chekhov’ Succumbs to Dementia

Canadian author Alice Munro died on the age of 92. Munro wrote brief tales and received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2013.

Munro was born within the Canadian province of Ontario and started writing brief tales when he was a young person. It took one other twenty years earlier than her first assortment was revealed, however she instantly received Canada’s prime literary prize in 1968.

After that she revealed a brand new assortment of tales each few years. A lot of Munro’s tales are set in small cities in Ontario and cope with troubled relationships between women and men.

Munro’s status grew steadily and she or he obtained a number of awards through the years. Her fashion has been praised for its simplicity and readability. Munro by no means wrote a novel, however her tales, critics wrote, had the texture and literary depth of novels.

Then Munro received the Nobel Prize eleven years in the past granted, the committee referred to as her “the grasp of the up to date brief story”. She was also referred to as “The Canadian Chekhov”, referring to the well-known Russian author from the nineteenth century.

Munro’s final assortment, Pricey Liferevealed in 2012. In Dutch it was translated as Pricey life. There are different Dutch titles Males of Jupiter, The love of an excellent lady in Away from her.

Munro had struggled together with her well being for years, together with dementia. A weak structure was additionally the rationale she was not in Stockholm for the Nobel Prize ceremony in 2013. Munro died yesterday in a nursing residence in Ontario.