Munro was born in 1931 in Wingham, Ontario, Canada. She began writing stories as a teenager, but did not make her debut until 1968 with the short story collection Happy Shadow Dance.
It is thanks to this news that Munro became world famous. In 2009 she received the international Booker Prize. The jury then described his work as “almost perfect”.
Four years later, she received the Nobel Prize for Literature and was called a “master of the art of the contemporary short story” by the Swedish Academy. At the time, she was the first Canadian woman to receive this award.
Munro’s Swedish The publishing house Atlas received the news of his death with sadness, says publishing director Jesper Bengtsson.
– I will remember her as a very popular author. She was truly loved by readers, long before the Nobel Prize.
– She had a unique voice and turned reporting on seemingly everyday things into an art form, he says.
In 2009 Munro gave released his latest short story collection, “Near Home.”
The author has been suffering from dementia for several years, the family tells the Canadian newspaper The Globe and Mail.
– We know that she has been ill for several years. “The situation is getting worse and this announcement is unfortunately no surprise,” says Jesper Bengtsson.
Munro fell asleep at his home in Ontario on Monday.
She was 92 years old.
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