Alice Munro, Nobel Prize-winning short story author, dies at 92

Canadian author Alice Munro as she receives a Man Booker International award at Trinity College Dublin, in Dublin, Ireland, on June 25, 2009.Canadian author Alice Munro as she receives a Man Booker International award at Trinity College Dublin, in Dublin, Ireland, on June 25, 2009.The writer Alice Munro has died, at the age of 92. The news was confirmed by her publisher, Penguin Random House Canada.

Munro was a craftsman, known for her intricately paced short stories that could devastate a reader. Her characters often lived in rural Ontario, like Munro herself., she said that living in a small town gave her the freedom to write."I don't think I could have been so brave if I had been living in a town, competing with people on what can be called a generally higher cultural level," she said.

Munro was born in 1931, outside of Wingham Ontario. After college, she moved to Victoria, British Columbia, and opened a bookstore, known as Munro's Books, with her then-husband James, known as Munro's Books. Her first story collection,won Canada's prestigious Governor's General's Award. That kicked off a career that would span more than a dozen story collections, as well as the novelThroughout her long career, she was extremely consistent.

"I want people to find not so much inspiration as great enjoyment. That's what I want; I want people to enjoy my books, to think of them as related to their own lives in ways."

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