Alice Munro, the Canadian author who won the Nobel Prize in Literature, has died. He died on Monday (May 13) at a service center in Port Hope, Ontario, Canada. He was 92 years old.

Known as the ‘master of the contemporary short story’, Munro has been writing short stories for over 60 years. In 2013, he received the Nobel Prize in Literature.

Munro was born on July 10, 1931, in Wingham, Ontario, Canada. He grew up in the rural and quiet environment there. Father was a farm owner, mother a school teacher.

Monroe has received the Governor General’s Award three times. For the books ‘Dance of the Happy Shades’ published in 1968, ‘Who Do You Think You Are’ in 1978 and ‘The Progress of Love’ in 1986. He also received Canada’s highest literary award. And in 2009, he received the Man Booker Prize, the highest honor after the Nobel Prize in literature. He received the award for the book ‘The Bear Came Over the Mountain’. Based on his book, director Sarah Pauly made the movie ‘Away From Her’.

Munro’s other published short story collections include ‘Lives of Girls and Women’ 1971, ‘Something I’ve Been Meaning to Tell You’ 1974, ‘The Moons of Jupiter’ 1982, ‘Friend of My Youth’ 1990, ‘Open Secrets’ 1994, ‘The Love of a Good Woman’ 1998, ‘Hateship Friendship Courtship Loveship Marriage’ 2001, ‘Runaway’ 2004, ‘Too Much Happiness’ 2009 and ‘Dear Life’ 2012.