Alice Munro, 92, Canadian short story writer and winner of the 2013 Nobel Prize for Literature, died on Monday night at her care home in Ontario. Munro was born in 1931 and published her first short story collection, Dance of the Happy Shades, in 1968. She was awarded the Man Booker International Prize in 2009 for her lifetime body of work. Penguin Random House Canada issued this statement. CEO of Penguin Random House Canada Kristin Cochrane said, “Alice Munro is a national treasure—a writer of enormous depth, empathy, and humanity whose work is read, admired, and cherished by readers throughout […]
