Acclaimed writer and master of the short story, she could pack more insight, nuance and suspense into a few pages than most writers could cram into a novel
Writer Alice Munro, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2013 and the Man Booker International Prize in 2009, has died.
After Alice and Jim Munro divorced in 1972, she married Gerald Fremlin, a cartographer and geographer whom she had also met during her university days. Both Mr. Fremlin and Mr. Munro predeceased her. Her daughters, Sheila, Jenny and Andrea and their families survive her. She also spoke the intimate and often fractious language of mother-daughter relationships beginning with Dance of the Happy Shades, her first collection of short stories. It won the Governor General’s Literary Award for English language fiction, the first of three Governor General Awards and two Giller Prizes she would receive over the course of 14 bestselling collections.
Ms. Munro won the Nobel in 2013 as a “master of the contemporary short story,” the first Canadian to receive the prize.
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