Goodbye to Alice Munro who invented ‘short stories’

Canadian writer Alice Munro has died at the age of 92: she revolutionized the short story and was awarded the Nobel Prize in 2013

BOLOGNA – Mourning in the world of literature for the death of Nobel Prize winner Alice Munro, considered the most important contemporary Canadian writer. Precisely with this motivation, in 2013, he won the Nobel Prize for literature. The writer died today at the age of 92: for years she had been struggling with a severe form of dementia.

The Swedish Academy which awarded her defined her as “master of the contemporary short story“: her writing was in fact defined as revolutionary because she was able to renew the short story in a completely original way. In particular, he has always had a very particular use of tenses, which in his stories constantly changefrom the past to the future. His stories, then, are striking for the frequent presence of twists and unexpected events. Among his most famous stories are ‘My Mother’s Dream’, ‘On the Run’, ‘The View from Castle Rock’. In Italy, Alice Munro’s stories arrived only in 1994.