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Alice Munro followed the back roads of stories, mapping routes home to southwestern Ontario

Alice Munro, who has died at the age of 92, was a storyteller devoted to representing the rich complexity of human experience, often through her nuanced exploration of southwestern Ontario history and culture.

The Conversation

‘Reading her stories is like watching a virtuoso pianist perform’: Alice Munro remembered

The Ontario-born writer turned the ‘classic New Yorker-style short story’ into the highest form of literature, by taking an obsessively detailed interest in the people who lived in her small Canadian town

The Guardian - UK

Five of the best Alice Munro short stories

The greatest examples of the late writer’s uncanny ability to capture the many complexities of life range from stories of sex to loneliness

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Alice Munro, Nobel-winning Canadian Author, Dead At 92

Alice Munro, the Nobel Prize-winning author known as "Canada's Chekhov" for her mastery of the short story, has died at 92, her editor said Tuesday.

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Alice Munro obituary

Canadian short-story writer who won the Nobel prize in 2013 and was often likened to Chekhov

The Guardian - UK

A life in quotes: Alice Munro

Writer known as ‘Canadian Chekhov’ captured the desire and darkness of ordinary life in rural Canada, particularly for women

The Guardian - US

Alice Munro, Nobel Prize-winning short story author, dies at 92

The Canadian writer was known for her masterfully crafted short stories. Throughout her long career, she earned a number of prestigious awards including the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2013.

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Alice Munro, Nobel-Winning Author, Dies at Ninety-Two

A Canadian master of the contemporary short story passes away

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Alice Munro, Nobel winner and titan of the short story, dies aged 92

Acclaimed for her accounts of the darkness and desire found in everyday life, ‘the Canadian Chekhov’ has died, having suffered from dementia for more than a decade

The Guardian - UK

Friday essay: love in the time of incontinence – why young people don't have the monopoly on love, or even sex

A friend with a close relative in a residential aged care home reports – in a tone of scandalised surprise – on romantic entanglements among the elderly.

The Conversation

Our Tote Bags, Ourselves

How a humble bag became a humble brag

The Walrus

Heather Rose writes with raw beauty about trauma and 'hardcore spiritual work' – so why does it leave me cold?

I have to begin my review of acclaimed novelist Heather Rose’s first foray into non-fiction with an admission: I am a deeply unspiritual person. I find “spiritual journey” narratives, generally speaking, solipsistic and tedious: I even grew impatient reading Herman Hesse’s Siddhartha.

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