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10-10-2013, 08:06 PM
Alice Munro is 1st Canadian woman to win Nobel literature prize - Arts & Entertainment - CBC News (http://www.cbc.ca/news/arts/alice-munro-is-1st-canadian-woman-to-win-nobel-literature-prize-1.1958383)
Alice Munro wins the 2013 Nobel Prize in Literature, becoming the first Canadian woman to take the award since its launch in 1901.
Munro, 82, only the 13th woman given the award, was lauded by the Swedish Academy during the Nobel announcement in Stockholm as the "master of the contemporary short story."
"We're not saying just that she can say a lot in just 20 pages — more than an average novel writer can — but also that she can cover ground. She can have a single short story that covers decades, and it works," said Peter Englund, permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy.
Reached in British Columbia by CBC News on Thursday morning, Munro said she always viewed her chances of winning the Nobel as "one of those pipe dreams" that "might happen, but it probably wouldn't."
Can't believe this hasn't been posted yet.
We have another Nobel laureate. And a woman for the first time! :)
I used to visit Munro's book during my undergrad at UVic and really enjoyed her short stories. I think I still have one of her books I had her autographed when I was there. Need to dig it out... I'm gonna flip it like ****!!! :ilied::fuckthatshit:
Alice Munro wins the 2013 Nobel Prize in Literature, becoming the first Canadian woman to take the award since its launch in 1901.
Munro, 82, only the 13th woman given the award, was lauded by the Swedish Academy during the Nobel announcement in Stockholm as the "master of the contemporary short story."
"We're not saying just that she can say a lot in just 20 pages — more than an average novel writer can — but also that she can cover ground. She can have a single short story that covers decades, and it works," said Peter Englund, permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy.
Reached in British Columbia by CBC News on Thursday morning, Munro said she always viewed her chances of winning the Nobel as "one of those pipe dreams" that "might happen, but it probably wouldn't."
Can't believe this hasn't been posted yet.
We have another Nobel laureate. And a woman for the first time! :)
I used to visit Munro's book during my undergrad at UVic and really enjoyed her short stories. I think I still have one of her books I had her autographed when I was there. Need to dig it out... I'm gonna flip it like ****!!! :ilied::fuckthatshit: