Canadian author Alice Munro, a 2013 Nobel Prize winner for literature, has died at the age of 92.
Munro wrote short stories for more than 60 years, often focusing on life in rural Canada.
She died at her home in Port Hope, Ontario on Monday night, her family and her publisher have confirmed.
Munro was often compared to Russian writer Anton Chekhov for the insight and compassion found in her stories.
“Alice Munro is a national treasure – a writer of enormous depth, empathy, and humanity whose work is read, admired, and cherished by readers throughout Canada and around the world,” Kristin Cochrane, the CEO of Penguin Random House Canada, said in a statement.
While pursuing higher education, Munro said she spent about half her time on academics and the other half writing.
She has published more than a dozen collections of short stories. In the 1950s and 1960s, her stories were broadcast on the CBC and published in several Canadian periodicals.
Some of her stories compared life before and after the social revolution of the 1960s.
“Having been born in 1931, I was a little old, but not too old, and women like me after a couple of years were wearing miniskirts and prancing around,” she said.
One well-known story, The Bear Came Over the Mountain, was made into the 2006 film Away from Her, starring Julie Christie and Gordon Pinsent.
