Alice Munro, Nobel Prize-Winning Canadian Author of ‘Away From Her,’ Dies at 92
variety.comPat Saperstein Deputy EditorAlice Munro, the Nobel and prize-winning Canadian author of short story collections and novels including “Lives of Girls and Women” and “The Love of a Good Woman,” died Monday night at her home in Ontario, the New York Times reported.
She was 92Munro won the Nobel Prize in literature in 2013 for her short stories, the Man Booker International prize in 2009 and the O’Henry award in 2012.
Born Alice Laidlaw in Ontario, Canada, she often wrote about women living in small towns in the province.The Booker jury wrote in its prize statement, “Alice Munro is mostly known as a short story writer and yet she brings as much depth, wisdom and precision to every story as most novelists bring to a lifetime of novels.
To read Alice Munro is to learn something every time that you never thought of before.” Several of Munro’s stories were adapted for film and television, including Pedro Almodovar‘s 2016 film “Julieta,” adapted from the stories “Chance,” “Soon” and “Silence” from the book “Runaway.”Many of Munro’s stories appeared in the New Yorker, bringing them to the attention of readers worldwide.
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