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Canadian author Alice Munro speaks to the media as she receives her Man Booker International award at Trinity College Dublin, in Dublin, Ireland, on June 25, 2009.Alice Munro, the Nobel Prize-winning author known for her mastery of the short story, has died at 92, her editor said Tuesday.
Her editor Deborah Treisman and a longtime friend David Staines confirmed to AFP that Munro died late Monday at her care home in Ontario.“She was the greatest writer of the short story form of our time. She was exceptional as a writer and as a human being,” said Staines. Despite her vast success and an impressive list of literary prizes, Munro long remained as unassuming and modest as the characters in her fiction.
“I think maybe I was successful in doing this because I didn’t have any other talents,” she explained in an interview once.
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