Alice Munro photographed in 2013 Photo: NTB
The Canadian Nobel laureate was 92 years previous.
Tuesday 14 May at 21:11
The information company Reuters experiences on the dying.
Alice Munro was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2013. She was the primary Canadian to obtain the prize.
Munro is taken into account certainly one of world literature’s main quick story writers.
Numerous her quick story collections have been translated into Norwegian.
– Her very good, easy and piercing tales embraced life itself, writes the publishing supervisor in Gyldendal Cathrine Bakke Bolin to VG.
She provides that it was not surprising, however nonetheless splendidly unhappy, to listen to that Alice Munro fell asleep on Tuesday.
– No one has written in regards to the small and huge occasions of on a regular basis life like her. Effortless and splendidly shut. As a pricey buddy or confidant sister, as a strict mom or fussy neighbor.
Bolin states that Gyldendal has been Alice Munro’s writer since 1982.
– What she has meant to her readers is sort of unimaginable. We have an unimaginable quantity to thank her for, writes the Gyldendal boss.
Munro has had dementia for a few years. She died in a nursing house in Ontario. The household confirms the dying.