Acclaimed for her accounts of the darkness and desire found in everyday life, ‘the Canadian Chekhov’ has died, having suffered from dementia for more than a decade
, who examined everyday life through the lens of short fiction for more than 60 years, has died aged 92 at her care home in Ontario. She had suffered from dementia for more than a decade.
Born in 1931 to a family of fox and poultry farmers living outside Wingham, Ontario and struggling to survive during the Great Depression, Munro went to university on a scholarship and studied for two years before moving to Vancouver with her first husband, James Munro, in 1951.
The 1970s was a decade of transformation for Munro: she moved back to Wingham after her first marriage broke down in 1973, married again in 1976 and had her first story published in the New Yorker in 1977 – Royal Beatings, a story based on the punishments she had received from her father as a child. She would go on to also be published in the likes of the Paris Review and the Atlantic Monthly.
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