Despite what a Twitter troll would have you believe, legendary Canadian author Alice Munro is not dead.

Fans of the Nobel Prize-winning short story writer (Dear Life, The View From Castle Rock) were shocked on Monday morning after seeing two tweets, which appeared to be from publisher McClelland Stewart, saying that Munro had died at the age of 88, the National Post reports.

“URGENT. McClellandStewart and Random House Canada announces the death of greatest short story writer Alice Munro, Nobel Prize in Literature for 2013,” the tweets read. “Sheila Munro officially confirms the news of the death of her mother Alice Munro. A press announcement to be released soon.”

And then, just after the second tweet, came language familiar to Book Twitter users: “This account is hoax created by Italian journalist Tommasso Debenedetti.”

Whether Debenedetti is actually the hoaxer in question is debatable — the journalist, who frequently has trolled Twitter in the past with fake news about authors dying, spells his first name with one “s,” not two.

Anyway, the important thing is that Munro is not dead, a fact that her admirers celebrated on Twitter:

 

 

 

Michael Schaub is an Austin, Texas-based journalist and regular contributor to NPR.