Munro had been suffering from dementia for at least a decade.
OTTAWA – Nobel Prize-winning Canadian writer Alice Munro, whose exquisitely crafted tales of the loves, ambitions and travails of small-town women in her native land made her a globally acclaimed master of the short story, has died at the age of 92, her publisher said on May 14.
Her stories explored sex, yearning, discontent, ageing, moral conflict and other themes in rural settings with which she was intimately familiar – villages and farms in the Canadian province of Ontario. She was adept at fully developing complex characters within the limited pages of a short story. In an interview with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation after winning the Nobel, Munro said, “I think my stories have gotten around quite remarkably for short stories, and I would really hope that this would make people see the short story as an important art, not just something that you played around with until you’d got a novel written.”
Munro’s story of a woman who starts losing her memory and agrees to enter a nursing home titled The Bear Came Over the Mountain, from Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage, was adapted into the Oscar-nominated 2006 film Away From Her, directed by fellow Canadian Sarah Polley. “For years and years, I thought that stories were just practice, till I got time to write a novel. Then I found that they were all I could do, and so I faced that. I suppose that my trying to get so much into stories has been a compensation,” Munro told the New Yorker magazine in 2012.
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