The Canadian writer Alice Munro, who won the Nobel Prize for Literature, passed away on Monday at the age of 92, as reported by The Globe and Mail newspaper citing members of the deceased’s family.

Alice Monroe, who in 2013 became the first Canadian author to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, had been suffering from dementia for at least a decade.

She was recognized worldwide as a leading short story writer, and when awarding the Nobel Prize in Literature, the Swedish Academy did not hesitate to compare her to Anton Chekhov, the distinguished Russian writer of the 19th century.

In an interview with Canadian public television (CBC) after her Nobel Prize, Munro said that the appeal of her writing made her hope that “people would now see short story writing as an important art, not as something one experiments with until one writes a novel’.

Her short story collections “She loves me, she doesn’t love me”, “Too much happiness”, “My precious life” and “The love of a good woman” have been published in Greek. The heroines of her short stories were usually women facing harsh trials, from an oppressive married life to sexual abuse.

She was born on July 10, 1931 in Wingham, a small community in Ontario – in which several of her short stories are set – and took her first writing steps in her teenage years. She became famous when her short stories were published in the New Yorker magazine in the 1970s.

She married James Munro in 1951 and settled in Victoria, British Columbia, where she ran a bookstore. The couple had four daughters – one died just hours after she was born – and divorced in 1972.

Subsequently, Alice Munro returned to Ontario. Her second husband, geographer Gerald Fremlin, died in April 2013.

In 2009, Munro revealed that she had undergone coronary bypass surgery and that she had been battling cancer.