Canadian short-story writer Alice Munro has died; the Freedom to Write for Palestine fundraiser
Alice Munro, the Canadian author of fourteen original short-story collections, has died at the age of ninety-two. Munro’s 2013 Nobel Prize in Literature was seen as a triumph for the art of the short story; the Swedish Academy described her as a master of the genre, echoing many critics, readers, and writers including Cynthia Ozick, Salman Rushdie, Margaret Atwood, and Jonathan Franzen. Munro told the Paris Review in 1994: “I never made a decision with any thought of my writing. And yet I never thought that I would abandon it. I guess because I didn’t understand that you could have conditions