![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() And then, of course, it just seemed one of those pipe dreams that it might happen. "So I didn't know about it until quite recently. I had many family things to do," she said, in a groggy early-morning phone call. Over the course of her career, she has won the Man Booker International Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction, and Canada's Governor General's Award for fiction - three times.īut even after this long list of accolades, Munro told Canada's CBC that the Nobel came as a surprise. Her collections include Dance of the Happy Shades, The View From Castle Rock, The Moons of Jupiter, and most recently, Dear Life. ![]() Munro has been writing short stories for more than 60 years, though she was first published in 1968. The academy often explains its decision - what it calls the "prize motivation" - with lush precision recent winners have been praised for their "hallucinatory realism," "condensed, translucent images" and "sensual ecstasy." But for Munro, the committee came straight to the point: They called her simply "master of the contemporary short story." The 82-year-old author recently announced that she plans to stop writing.Īlice Munro has been awarded the Nobel Prize in literature, the Swedish Academy announced Thursday morning. Canadian author Alice Munro has won the Nobel Prize in literature. ![]()
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