Alice Ann Munro:
(born Laidlaw), (Wingham (Ontario), 10 July 1931 – Port Hope (Ontario), 13 May 2024).
Canadian short-story writer.
In May 2009, she was awarded the Man Booker International Prize for her entire body of work. In 2013, she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature as ‘Master of the contemporary short story’.
Munro died on 13 May 2024 at the age of 92. She had been suffering from dementia for a very long time.
The last days of May are among the longest of the year.
