Alice Munro, Nobel-winning Canadian author, dies at 92

Alice Munro, the Nobel Prize-winning author known for her mastery of the short story, has died at 92, her editor said.

Alice Munro, the Nobel Prize-winning author known for her mastery of the short story, has died at 92, her editor said.

Munro set her taut, acutely observed stories in the rural Ontario countryside where she grew up, focusing a stark lens on the frailties of the human condition.

Awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2013 and the International Booker Prize for her body of work in 2009, Munro had suffered from dementia in recent years.

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Her editor Deborah Treisman and a longtime friend David Staines confirmed to AFP that Munro died late on May 13 at her care home in Ontario.

“She was the greatest writer of the short story form of our time. She was exceptional as a writer and as a human being,” said Mr. Staines.

Canadian Heritage Minister Pascale St-Onge on X described Munro as a Canadian literary icon while Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said, “the world had lost one of its greatest storytellers.”