Alice Munro was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2013 after being the favourite for years. In line with the Swedish Academy’s justification, she was then described as “the grasp of up to date quick story artwork”.
– She is a singular voice that took quick story writing to Nobel Prize ranges and has touched readers all around the world, says Jesper Bengtsson, publishing director at Atlas, Munro’s Swedish writer, to TT.
The breakthrough with “The Beggar Lady”
Alice Munro was born in 1931 in Wingham within the province of Ontario, Canada. She debuted as a author in 1968 with the quick story “Dance of the Pleased Shades”, for which she was awarded one in every of Canada’s most interesting literary prizes. Since then, she has written 15 collections of quick tales.
In 1978, she had her massive breakthrough with the gathering of quick tales “The Beggar Lady”, which in ten quick tales adopted the poor lady Rose on her option to independence and the way she left the small city behind.
In 2009, Alice Munro was awarded the worldwide Booker Prize.
Likened to Anton Chekhov
Munro’s literary model has been in comparison with Anton Chekhov. Her quick tales usually revolved round small-town ladies within the Canadian countryside. Typically the quick tales contained autobiographical parts.
– Her quick tales have been usually about dropping illusions. The invisible electrifying moments in life when individuals, normally ladies, or youngsters, understand that it’s time to bury the expectation. She was a grasp at portraying longing, the will for pores and skin and freedom, the way in which out, writes Kulturnyheterna’s literary critic Ulrika Milles in a remark.
For a number of years Alice Munro suffered from dementia. On Monday, she fell asleep at her dwelling in Ontario, the household advised the newspaper.
– It’s not sudden provided that she has been unwell, however this can be very tragic. The world is dropping one in every of its strongest literary voices, says writer Jesper Bengtsson.
Alice Munro’s final e-book was “Brinnande lifet”, which was revealed in Swedish in 2013.
