Canadian short-story writer who won the Nobel prize in 2013 and was often likened to Chekhov and Guy de Maupassant
Few writers have possessed the short-story format as thoroughly as the Canadian author and Nobel laureate Alice Munro, who has died aged 92.
Although her early years as a writer were clouded by the feeling, partly the result of pressure from her publishers, that she should concentrate on producing a novel, she never embraced that genre.
