NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE 2013

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  The Nobel Prize in Literature 2013 was awarded to Alice Munro "master of the contemporary short story".

 

The renowned 82 year old Canadian Short Story Teller Alice Munro Wins this Year Nobel prize in Literature. She is the 13th Woman to Receive this award in literature. According to Swedish Academy Munro is” the Master of Contemporary Short Story Teller of Her Time”, who has a 14 story collections since the 1960s, often focusing on the lives of girls and women from the towns and farming communities in her home region of southwestern Ontario.

The renowned 82 year old Canadian Short Story Teller Alice Munro Wins this Year Nobel prize in Literature. She is the 13th Woman to Receive this award in literature. According to Swedish Academy Munro is” the Master of Contemporary Short Story Teller of Her Time”, who has a 14 story collections since the 1960s, often focusing on the lives of girls and women from the towns and farming communities in her home region of southwestern Ontario.

 

     

PROFILE OF ALICE
NAME Alice Munro
OCCUPATIONAuthor
BIRTH DATE: July 10, 1931 (Age: 82)
NATIONALITYCANADIAN
NOTABLE AWARDS
  • GOVERNOR GENERAL'S AWARD(1968,1978,1986)
  • GILLER PRIZE(1998, 2004)
  • MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE(2009)
EDUCATIONUniversity of Western Ontario
PLACE OF BIRTHWingham, Ontario, Canada
MAIDEN NAMEAlice Ann Laidlaw
FULL NAMEAlice Ann Munro
SPOUSE:JAMES MUNRO, GERALD FREMLIN

 

Her first collection, “Dance of the Happy Shades,” was published when she was 37 and  “Dear Life,” published last year, appears to be her last published and some of her best collections are Runaway, The progress of Love, The Moons of Jupiter etc.Throughout her career, Alice has drawn from the setting of her home of rural Ontario and have a  few of her themes on sex, desire, work, discontent and aging. One of her collections, “The Love of a Good Woman,” won a National Book Critics Circle Award in 1998.

Its seen from the awardees in recent years have included Mo Yan of China, in 2012; the Swedish poet Tomas Transtromer, in 2011; Mario Vargas Llosa, the Peruvian writer, in 2010; and, in 2009,Herta Müller, a Romanian-born German novelist and essayist.She is the author of a series of story collections chronicling the lives of girls and women before and after the 1960s social revolution, including "The Moons of Jupiter," 'The Progress of Love" and "Runaway." Anyway She is the Best of Her Time.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Important fact about Alice Munro

  • Alice Munro is the first Canadian woman to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature.
  • Alice Munro is the first Canadian writer to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature since Saul Bellow, who won the honor in 1976.
  • Alice Munro is the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature since Herta Mueller in 2009.
  • Alice Munro is only the 13th female recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature since the prize was founded in 1901.

 

 

 

  SOME SHORT STORIES:

 SOME NOTABLE AWARDS RECEIVED BY ALICE:

  • Governor General's Literary Award for English language fiction (1968, 1978, 1986)
  • Canadian Booksellers Award for Lives of Girls and Women (1971)
  • Shortlisted for the annual (UK) Booker Prize for Fiction (now the Man Booker Prize) (1980) for The Beggar Maid
  • Marian Engel Award (1986)
  • Trillium Book Award for Friend of My Youth (1991), The Love of a Good Woman (1999) and Dear Life (2013)
  • WH Smith Literary Award (1995, UK) for Open Secrets
  • Lannan Literary Award for Fiction (1995)
  • PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in Short Fiction (1997)
  • National Book Critics Circle Award (1998, U.S.) For The Love of a Good Woman
  • Giller Prize (1998 and 2004)
  • Rea Award for the Short Story (2001) given to a living American or Canadian author.
  • Libris Award
  • O. Henry Award for continuing achievement in short fiction in the U.S. for "Passion" (2006) and "What Do You Want To Know For" (2008)
  • Man Booker International Prize (2009, UK)
  • Canada-Australia Literary Prize
  • Commonwealth Writers Prize Regional Award for Canada and the Caribbean.
  • Nobel Prize in Literature (2013) as "master of the contemporary short story".

 

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