Alice Munro, acclaimed for revolutionizing short-story writing and the first Canadian woman to win the Nobel Prize in literature, has died.

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Author Alice Munro, seen on May 15, 1969.

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Author Alice Munro, seen on October 20, 1986.Tim McKenna/The Globe and Mail

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Farley Mowat is caught by surprise while congratulating Alice Munro, at the Governor-General's literary award, in Ottawa, on April 4, 1979.Roger Arar/The Canadian Press

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Alice Munro, left, receives the 1986 Governor General's Literary Award for english-language fiction writing from Governor General Jeanne Sauve in Toronto on May 27, 1987.BLAISE EDWARDS/The Canadian Press

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Author Alice Munro, seen on April 20, 1990.The Globe and Mail

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Alice Munro, left, and Jane Urquhart with former Globe and Mail literary editor William French on May 30, 1990.Edward Regan/The Globe and Mail

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Alice Munro at the unveiling of The Alice Munro Literary Garden by the Wingham and District Horticultural Society in her hometown of Wingham, Ontario on July 10, 2002.Patti Gower/The Globe and Mail

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Author Alice Munro wins the 2004 Giller Prize at the 11th Annual Giller Prize Awards on November 11, 2004 in Toronto.DEBORAH BAIC

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Canadian Author Alice Munro winner of the 2009 Booker International Prize at attends a press conference at Trinity College, Dublin. The prize is worth 60,000 Sterling and is awarded once every two years to an author.Julien Behal/Reuters

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Alice Munro, seen in Clinton, Ontario, on June 23, 2013.The New York Times

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Alice Munro at The Royal Scot hotel in Victoria on October 11, 2013 where she first heard the news that she had won the Nobel Prize for literature.John Lehmann/The Globe and Mail

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Book seller Taliah Lundstrom stacks copies of Alice Munro's book "Dear Life" at Munro's Books in Victoria on October 10, 2013, following the news that Canadian author Alice Munro, made history after wining the Nobel Prize for literature.CHAD HIPOLITO/The Globe and Mail

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Alice Munro seen in Victoria, B.C. on December 10, 2013.Chad Hipolito/The Canadian Press

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Jenny Munro, daughter to Alice Munro The 2013 Nobel Literature Prizewinner, receives the Nobel Prize award in her mother's place on Tuesday, Dec. 10, 2013 in Stockholm, Sweden.Fredrik Sandberg/The Canadian Press

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The Royal Canadian Mint celebrates Alice Munro, author and recipient of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Literature, with a pure silver five-dollar coin at the Great Victoria Public Library in Victoria, B.C., on March 24, 2014.CHAD HIPOLITO/The Canadian Press

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lice Munro reads from her book "The View From Castle Rock" at a ceremony held by the Royal Canadian Mint to celebrate her Nobel Prize win on March 24, 2014.CHAD HIPOLITO/The Canadian Press

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