Canadian Writer and Nobel Prize Winner Alice Munro Dies At 92

Canadian author Alice Munro, a 2013 Nobel Prize winner for literature, has died at the age of 92.

Munro wrote short stories for more than 60 years, often focusing on life in rural Canada. I Photo: McClelland & Stewart Facebook

Munro wrote short stories for more than 60 years, often focusing on life in rural Canada, Rachel Looker reported for BBC News.

She died at her home in Port Hope, Ontario on Monday night, her family and her publisher have confirmed. Munro was often compared to Russian writer Anton Chekhov for the insight and compassion found in her stories.

"Alice Munro is a national treasure - a writer of enormous depth, empathy, and humanity whose work is read, admired, and cherished by readers throughout Canada and around the world," Kristin Cochrane, the CEO of Penguin Random House Canada, said in a statement.

Her first major breakthrough came in 1968, when her short story collection, “Dance of The Happy Shades,” about life in the suburbs of western Ontario, won Canada's highest literary honor, the Governor General's Award.

It was the first of three Governor General's Awards she would win in her lifetime. Munro has published thirteen collections of stories as well as one novel, “Lives of Girls and Women,” and two volumes of Selected Stories.