Alice Munro Wins Nobel Prize For Literature

Alice Munro: 'Splendid' to be awarded Nobel Prize

10 October 2013 Last updated at 19:56 BST

Canadian writer Alice Munro has said it is "splendid" to have been awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.

Speaking to Canadian broadcaster CBC's Heather Hiscox, Ms Munro said that she felt very happy that the award could "make people see the short story as an important art."

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Alice Munro wins Nobel Prize for Literature.

 

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Calling her a “master of the contemporary short story,” the Swedish Academy awarded 82-year-old Alice Munro the Nobel Prize in Literature today. It is well-deserved, and hard-earned (and comes not long after she announced her retirement from fiction). After 14 story collections, Munro has reached at least a couple generations of writers with her psychologically subtle stories about ordinary men and women in Huron County, Ontario, her birthplace and home.

 

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