Alice Munro Wins The 2013 Nobel Prize For Literature -

Canadian author Alice Munro has won the
2013 Nobel Prize for Literature.
Making the announcement, Peter Englund,
permanent secretary of the Swedish
Academy, called her a "master of the
contemporary short story".
The 82-year-old, whose books include Dear
Life and Dance of the Happy Shades, is only
the 13th woman to win the prize since its
inception in 1901.
"I knew I was in the running, yes, but I
never thought I would win," Munro told
Canadian media.
Presented by the Nobel Foundation, the
award - which is presented to a living writer
- is worth eight million kronor (£770,000).
Munro said in an interview that Dear Life
would "probably" be her last book
Previous winners include literary giants
such as Rudyard Kipling, Toni Morrison and
Ernest Hemingway.
Mr Englund told The Associated Press that
he had not been able to contact Munro
ahead of the announcement so left a
message on her answering machine,
informing her of her win.
"She has taken an art form, the short story,
which has tended to come a little bit in the
shadow behind the novel, and she has
cultivated it almost to perfection,'' he
added.
Munro, who began writing in her teenage
years, published her first story, The
Dimensions of a Shadow, in 1950.
She had been studying English at the
University of Western Ontario at the time.

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