Alice Munro Wins 2013 Nobel Prize for Literature

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Congratulations to Alice Munro who has been awarded the 2013 Nobel Prize for Literature! The Canadian writer, who said earlier this year that her book Dear Life (published in 2012), would be her last, was "terribly surprised" and "delighted" by the news, which was broken to her by her daughter early this morning. Peter Englund, permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy which awards the Nobel Prizes, called Munro a "master of the contemporary short story". The eight million Swedish kronor (N197 million) prize is the latest in a long line of awards for the writer, who has also received the Commonwealth Writers' Prize, the National Book Critics Circle prize, and Canada's Governor General's prize. Munro joins previous Nobel Prize for Literature winners and ZODML favourites Wole Soyinka, Nadine Gordimer, and Toni Morrison.
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