Canadian Nobel Laureate Alice Munro dies at 92


By Lin Wei
  • World
  • Wednesday, 15 May 2024

OTTAWA, May 14 (Xinhua) -- Canadian writer Alice Munro, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2013, has died, local media reported Tuesday.

She was 92 and had been suffering from dementia for at least a dozen years. She died Monday night at her care home in Ontario. Her death was confirmed by her family. Funeral arrangements are pending, the Globe and Mail reported.

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