“Alice Munro is a national treasure – a writer of immense depth, empathy and humanity, whose work is read, admired and enjoyed by readers across Canada and around the world,” Kristin Cochrane, CEO of publisher Penguin Random House Canada, said in a statement.

His first major success came in 1968, with his collection of short stories, Dance of Happy Shadowsabout life in suburban western Ontario, won Canada’s highest literary honour, the Governor General’s Award.

It was the first of three Governor General’s Awards she would win during her lifetime.

Munro has published thirteen collections of short stories, as well as a novel, Lives of girls and womenand two of the two volumes of short stories, Selected Stories.

In 1977, the New Yorker magazine published one of Munro’s stories, Royal Beatsbased on the punishments she received from her father when she was young. She continued to have a long relationship with the magazine.

Munro, the daughter of a fox farmer and a teacher, was born in Wingham, Ontario in 1931. Many of her stories are set in the area and describe the people, culture and way of life of the region.

As a youth, she was named valedictorian of her high school and received a scholarship to the University of Western Ontario in London (in this case, the Canadian city of London).

Munro had the highest English grade of any student who applied to the university.

While pursuing graduate studies, Munro said he devoted about half his time to academic pursuits and the other half to writing.

In the 1950s and 1960s, his short stories were broadcast on the CBC network and published in several Canadian magazines.

Some of his stories compared life before and after the revolutions in the streets and customs of the 1960s.

“Being born in 1931, I was a little old, but not too old, and women like me, after a few years, were wearing miniskirts and jumping around,” she said.

A well-known story, The bear came over the mountainwas made into a 2006 film Far from herwith Julie Christie and Gordon Pinsent.

In 2009, Munro won the Man Booker International Prize. for the whole work.

The judges said in a statement at the time: “To read Alice Munro is to learn something each time that one has never thought of before.”

They added that Munro “brings as much depth, wisdom and precision to each story as most novelists bring to a lifetime of novels.”

She went on to win the Nobel Prize in 2013. Previous winners include literary giants such as Rudyard Kipling, Toni Morrison and Ernest Hemingway.

The Nobel committee called Munro “a master of the contemporary short story.”

Munro said in a 2013 interview with The Guardian newspaper that he had “been writing personal stories all my life”.

“Maybe I write stories that really interest people, maybe it’s the complexity and the lives that are presented in them,” she told the newspaper.

“I hope it’s a good read. I hope they touch people.”

Your latest collection of stories, Dear life (“Vida Querida”, in Portuguese, published by Biblioteca Azul), was published in 2012. It included partially autobiographical stories.

Munro told the National Post newspaper that the book was special because he probably would never write it again.

“Not that I didn’t like writing, but I think you get to a point where you start thinking differently about your life,” she said.