Obituary: Alice Munro, Nobel Prize-winning Canadian writer widely recognised as master of the modern short story

Alice Munro. Photo: Getty

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Writer Alice Munro, who has died aged 92, became the 13th woman and the first Canadian to win the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2013 for her collections of short stories, set usually in southern Ontario, that managed to invest the humdrum events and parochial dramas of daily small-town life with a haunting significance.

Widely admired for her spare and understated fiction, her work was often compared with that of Chekhov, in that plot is secondary and there is little action.