Canadian writer Alice Munro, Nobel Prize winner for literature in 2013 after a life dedicated to describing the world and people, has died at the age of 92.
The short story author, who suffered from a neurodegenerative disease, had been a guest of a retirement home in the province of Ontario for some time, according to her family, quoted by the Canadian newspaper The Globe and Mail.
She published her first story, The Dimensions of a Shadow, in 1950 while a student at the University of Western Ontario. He then abandoned his studies but continued to write: his stories were published in some magazines and then in book form.

«North America's greatest living writer», according to the American author Jonathan Franzen. His art was expressed mainly in the form of the story, which he mastered with great style thanks to the gift of enclosing the intensity of entire novels in short stories, with characters outlined in a handful of words.

The ability to tell the failure of an entire life in a single line runs through all his collections, from "The Path of Love" to "Too Much Happiness", up to "The View from Castle Rock" where the story of his family , divided into short and powerful stories, becomes a choral epic.

Munro decided to say goodbye to writing in 2013, the year he won the Nobel.

(Unioneonline/D)

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