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Alice Munro, Nobel Prize-winning author, dies at age 92
Alice Munro, a renowned Canadian author, passed away at the age of 92 in her home in Port Hope, Ontario. Born in 1931, Munro grew up on a struggling fox and mink farm, where she found solace in reading as a child. Her appreciation for literature was evident even from an early age. In recent years, Munro had been suffering from dementia, and she died at her care home in Ontario late Monday. Despite being a private person who rarely appeared in public, Munro's work has left a lasting impact on the literary world. Notably, Munro was the first Canadian author to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. Her passing has been met with tributes from the literary community, with many praising her inspiring writing that has left an indelible mark on the literary landscape.
Her texts often feature depictions of everyday but decisive events, epiphanies of a kind, that illuminate the surrounding story and let existential questions appear in a flash of lightning.
Nobel Prize Alice Munro
sources
- 1.France 24
- 2.CNN
- 3.The Times
- 4.DW News
- 5.The Times of India
- 6.Die Zeit
- 7.New Yorker
- 8.CBC News
- 9.New York Times
- 10.Guardian
perspectives
countries
organizations
- 1.Penguin Random House
- 2.McClelland & Stewart
- 3.Munro's Books
- 4.Tamarack Review
- 5.Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
- 6.Nobel Foundation
- 7.Paris Review
persons
- 1.Alice Munro
- 2.Jonathan Franzen
- 3.James Munro
- 4.Anton Chekhov
- 5.Margaret Atwood
- 6.Louisa Schaefer
- 7.Sarah Polley
- 8.Alice Ann Laidlaw
- 9.Alice Laidlaw
- 10.Carla Bleiker
- 11.Cynthia Ozick
- 12.Eudora Welty