Alice Munro Wins Nobel Prize in Literature

Noted Canadian author Alice Munro won the 2013 Nobel Prize in Literature today beating frontrunner Haruki Murakami.

The Swedish Academy awarded the 82-year-old Munro as the “master of the contemporary short story.”

Monro becomes the 13th woman writer to win to the Nobel Prize for Literature. She won the 2009 Man Booker International Prize for her lifetime works.

With her first collection of stories, Dance of the Happy Shades in 1968 Munro came into the limelight. She won the Governor General’s Award, country’s highest literary award. Girls and Women in 1971, The Beggar Maid: Stories of Flo and Rosein in 1978 are some of her most popular works.

Presenting TIME 100 Honoree in 2005, TIME wrote, “Alice Munro is 73 now, and she deserves the Nobel Prize. Her fiction admits readers to a more intimate knowledge and respect for what they already possess.”

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