Alice Munro, the Nobel and prize-winning Canadian author of short story collections and novels including “Lives of Girls and Women” and “The Love of a Good Woman,” died Monday night at her home in Ontario, the New York Times reported. She was 92
Munro won the Nobel Prize in literature in 2013 for her short stories, the Man Booker International prize in 2009 and the O’Henry award in 2012. Born Alice Laidlaw in Ontario, Canada, she often wrote about women living in small towns in the province.
The Booker jury wrote in its prize statement, “Alice Munro is mostly known as a short story writer and yet she brings as much depth, wisdom and precision to every story as most novelists bring to a lifetime of novels. To read Alice Munro is to learn something every time that you never thought of before.”
Several of Munro’s stories were adapted for film and television, including Pedro Almodovar‘s 2016 film “Julieta,” adapted from the stories “Chance,” “Soon” and “Silence” from the book “Runaway.”
Many of Munro’s stories appeared in the New Yorker, bringing them to the attention of readers worldwide. One of them was director Sarah Polley, who based her 2006 film “Away From Her” on the story “The Bear Came Over the Mountain” from Munro’s short story collection “Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage” The film starred Julie Christie and Olympia Dukakis and was Oscar-nominated for Christie and for Polley’s adapted screenplay.
Another story in the same collection, “Hateship, Friendship,” was adapted by Liza Johnson for a 2013 film starring Kristen Wiig, Hailee Steinfeld, Nick Nolte, Jennifer Jason Leigh and Guy Pearce.
Other stories adapted for films include Asghar Farhadi’s “Canaan,” “Edge of Madness” and the TV movie “Lives of Girls and Women.”
