Alice Munro Wins Nobel Prize in Literature – NYTimes.com
Canadian writer Alice Munro, master of the short-fiction form, has won the Nobel Prize in Literature:
Ms. Munro revolutionized the architecture of short stories, often beginning a story in an unexpected place, then moving backward or forward in time. She brought a modesty and subtle wit to her work that her admirers often traced to her background growing up in rural Canada. She said she fell into writing short stories, the form that would make her famous, somewhat by accident.
“For years and years I thought that stories were just practice, till I got time to write a novel,” she told The New Yorker in 2012. “Then I found that they were all I could do, and so I faced that. I suppose that my trying to get so much into stories has been a compensation.”
She is the 13th woman to win the prize, which currently amounts to approximately $1.2 million.
