Nobel Prize winner Alice Munro dies at 92

, the revered Canadian author who started writing short stories because she did not think she had the time or the talent to master novels, then stubbornly dedicated her long career to churning out psychologically dense stories that dazzled the literary world andHer family announced the death, at a care home, to the Canadian newspaper The Globe and Mail.

She achieved such compactness through exquisite craftsmanship and a degree of precision that did not waste words. Other writers declared some of her stories to be nearly perfect, a heavy burden for a writer of modest personal character who had struggled to overcome a lack of self-confidence at the beginning of her career when she left the protective embrace of her quiet hometown and ventured into the competitive literary scene.

“With Alice it’s like a shorthand,” Ford said. “You’ll just mention her, and everybody just kind of generally nods that she’s just sort of as good as it gets.” During the presentation of the taped interview at the Swedish Academy, Swedish actress Pernilla August read an excerpt from Munro’s story Carried Away, a multidecade tale of dashed expectations that typified the complicated, often disappointing, world of her stories:

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