Canadian short story author and Nobel Prize winner
Munro, who had been suffering from dementia for the past dozen years, died Monday in her care home in
He short stories often take place in the small towns and rural areas of her home province of
"I am at home with the brick houses, the falling down barns, the trailer parks, burdensome old churches,
Munro published her first short story, The Dimensions of Shadow, in 1950 while she was studying journalism at the
Her stories made her a three-time winner of the Governor General's Award for fiction. She also won a
Munro most notably won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2013. The foundation in a statement announcing the award called her the "master of the contemporary short story."
She was the first Canadian to receive the prize for literature and the 13th women to receive the award since its inception in 1901.
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She met her first husband, bookseller
Munro announced her retirement from writing in 2013, shortly after the death of her second husband
Due to health reasons, she did not travel to
In a statement regarding her award, she said she was "dazed by all the attention and affection that has been coming my way."
"When I began writing, there was a very small community of Canadian writers, and little attention was paid by the world," the statement read. "Now Canadian writers are read, admired and respected around the globe. I'm so thrilled to be chosen as [a] Nobel Prize for Literature recipient.
"I hope it fosters further interest in all Canadian writers. I also hope that this brings further recognition to the short story form."
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