Canadian short-story writer who won the Nobel prize in 2013 and was often likened to Chekhov and Guy de Maupassant
— Read on www.theguardian.com/books/2024/may/14/alice-munro-obituary
The death has just been announced of the truly great Canadian writer, Alice Munro. Lots to read at The Guardian and, of course, at The New York Times, including from earlier this year an “Essential Alice Munro” (astutely subtitled with the prerequisite for reading Munro being simply to have lived!)
Sent
a life as long
as said stories short.
Said therein
much more than most.
Surely to live long,
much longer than most
mere mortal days
here spent.
- Anne Dromache, May, 2024.