Alice Munro Wins Nobel Prize in Literature
Alice Munro, the renowned Canadian short-story writer
whose visceral work explores the tangled relationships between men and women,
small-town existence and the fallibility of memory, won the 2013 Nobel Prize in
Literature on Thursday. Announcing the award in Stockholm, the Swedish Academy
said that Ms. Munro, 82, who has written 14 story collections, was a “master of
the contemporary short story.” She is the 13th woman to win the prize.
Ms. Munro, widely
beloved for her spare and psychologically astute fiction that is deeply
revealing of human nature, appeared to be more of a purely literary choice. She
revolutionized the architecture of short stories, often beginning a story in an
unexpected place then moving backward or forward in time, and brought a modesty
and subtle wit to her work that admirers often traced to her background growing
up in rural Canada.
The Nobel, one of
the most prestigious and lucrative prizes in the world, is given to a writer
for a lifetime’s body of work, rather than a single novel, short story or
collection. The winner receives eight million Swedish kronor, or about $1.2
million.
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