Alice Munro

Alice Ann Munro Munro (July 10, 1931 - May 13, 2024), or Alice Munro, Alice Munro, Alice Munro, originally surnamed Laidlaw, a Canadian female writer, known as the "Chekhov of Canada", won the Governor General's Award of Canada three times, won the Booker International Prize in 2009, and then won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2013. She is the first writer to win these two awards. In 2013, she became the first Canadian female Nobel Prize winner and the 13th female writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature for her achievements as a "master of contemporary short stories". Canada's The Globe and Mail reported on the news of Meng Ruo's death in an Ontario nursing home and pointed out that she had suffered from dementia for at least 12 years before her death and was presumed to have won the Nobel Prize for Literature.