The Nobel Prize laureate in Literature, Canadian writer Alice Munro, passed away on Monday at the age of 92, as reported by the media on Tuesday. Excellently crafted stories about the loves, ambitions, and struggles of women from a small town in her native country made Alice Munro a globally recognized master of the short story.

Media reports state that Munro had been suffering from dementia for the past decade.

She published over ten collections of short stories and was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2013. Her stories explore sex, longing, dissatisfaction, aging, moral conflicts, and other themes of the rural environment of Ontario province, where she lived and with which she was intimately familiar.

She was skilled at fully developing complex characters within the constrained structures of the short story. She is often compared to Anton Chekhov, the Russian master of the short story from the 19th century, a comparison highlighted by the Swedish Academy when awarding her the Nobel Prize.

Munro also received the Booker Prize in 2009 and twice won the Giller Prize, the most prestigious literary award in Canada.