![]() ![]() The Man Booker judges called her work "practically perfect" in 2009, and NPR's Alan Cheuse has written that "she now seems as much an institution as any living writer." A Munro story, Cheuse says, "gives us so much life within the bounds of a single tale that it nourishes us almost as much as a novel does."īooks No Such Thing As 'Too Much' Alice Munro Munro's own short stories have long been met with enthusiastic praise. In her interview with the CBC, Munro emphasized the significance of her win not for herself, but for her art form: "I really hope that this would make people see the short story as an important art," she said, "not just something that you played around with until you got a novel written." In a literary culture that tends to lionize novels over shorter fiction, Munro has been a constant advocate for the power of the short story. In addition to Canadians, short-story writers (and enthusiasts) might welcome Munro's win with delight. I'm happy, too, that this will bring more attention to Canadian writing." She's only the second Canadian-born author to win the Nobel Prize in literature the first, Saul Bellow, was a naturalized American who spent most of his life in the U.S. She said in a statement from her publisher that she is "amazed, and very grateful." She added, "I'm particularly glad that winning this award will please so many Canadians. 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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