Alice Munro, the Nobel and prize-winning Canadian creator of brief story collections and novels together with “Lives of Girls and Women” and “The Love of a Good Woman,” died Monday night time at her residence in Ontario, the New York Times reported. She was 92
Munro received the Nobel Prize in literature in 2013 for her brief tales, the Man Booker International prize in 2009 and the O’Henry award in 2012. Born Alice Laidlaw in Ontario, Canada, she usually wrote about ladies residing in small cities within the province.
The Booker jury wrote in its prize assertion, “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 tales have been tailored for movie and tv, together with Pedro Almodovar‘s 2016 movie “Julieta,” tailored from the tales “Chance,” “Soon” and “Silence” from the e-book “Runaway.”
Many of Munro’s tales appeared within the New Yorker, bringing them to the eye of readers worldwide. One of them was director Sarah Polley, who based mostly her 2006 movie “Away From Her” on the story “The Bear Came Over the Mountain” from Munro’s brief story assortment “Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage” The movie starred Julie Christie and Olympia Dukakis and was Oscar-nominated for Christie and for Polley’s tailored screenplay.
Another story in the identical assortment, “Hateship, Friendship,” was tailored by Liza Johnson for a 2013 movie starring Kristen Wiig, Hailee Steinfeld, Nick Nolte, Jennifer Jason Leigh and Guy Pearce.
Other tales tailored for movies embody Asghar Farhadi’s “Canaan,” “Edge of Madness” and the TV film “Lives of Girls and Women.”