The writer Alice Munroaward winner Nobel Prize for Literature in 2013 and considered “the Chekhov of Canada”, he died at the age of 92, the press announced this Tuesday (14). Munro, who also won the 2009 award Man Booker International Prize for his body of work, he suffered from dementia in the last years of his life. According to the Globe and Mail newspaper, the writer died Monday evening (13) in Ontario, Canada.

A master of the short story, the author set her taut, carefully observed stories in the rural Ontario where she grew up, focusing on the frailties of the human condition. Despite his great success and an impressive list of literary awards, he long lived in the same simple and modest way as his fictional characters. Its discretion contrasted with that of another Canadian giant literature contemporary, Marguerite Atwood.

Born July 10, 1931 in Wingham, Ontario, Munro grew up in the country. His father, Robert Eric Laidlaw, raised foxes and birds, while his mother was a teacher in a small town. At just 11 years old, she decided to become a writer and never hesitated in her professional choice.

“I think maybe I succeeded because I had no other talents,” he once explained in an interview. She owned one of the most famous bookstores in her country and had one of the most respectable careers in English-language literature.

Alice Munro is the author of several history books, translated into more than ten languages. The first of these, “Dimensions of a Shadow,” was published in 1950, while he was a student at the University of Western Ontario. Among the Canadian author’s publications in Brazil are “The Moons of Jupiter”, “The Fugitive”, “Dear Life”, “Too Much Happiness” and “The Love of a Good Woman”.

*With information from AFP