Alice Munro wins Nobel Prize for Literature

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Alice Munro wins Nobel Prize for Literature

Posted: 10/10/13 at 9:58am

The wonderful short story writer becomes the first** Canadian and thirteenth woman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature. If you haven't read her work, now's the time.

**Second, if you count Canadian-born American Saul Bellow.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/11/books/alice-munro-wins-nobel-prize-in-literature.html?_r=0

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Updated On: 10/10/13 at 09:58 AM

Alice Munro wins Nobel Prize for Literature

Posted: 10/10/13 at 10:09am

Did they ever reach her so they could tell her? As of this morning, the award committee hadn't been able to get in touch with her.

Alice Munro wins Nobel Prize for Literature

Posted: 10/10/13 at 10:12am

Yes. She's given a comment, which is available in the link I posted.

Nothing beats Doris Lessing learning about her win from a reporter on the street:
"Oh, Christ"

Updated On: 10/10/13 at 10:12 AM

Alice Munro wins Nobel Prize for Literature

Posted: 10/10/13 at 10:20am

Yay for one of the greats.

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Alice Munro wins Nobel Prize for Literature

Posted: 10/10/13 at 10:39am

Margaret Atwood hits it out of the park on Twitter.

Margaret E. Atwood
?@MargaretAtwood
Okay,everyone's calling Me to get me to write about Alice!
(Alice, come out from behind the tool shed and pick up the phone.) #AliceMunro

Alice Munro wins Nobel Prize for Literature

Posted: 10/10/13 at 11:02am

Atwood tweeted a link to a piece she had written about Alice Munro's work, which is a good introduction to those unfamiliar with her. I've read that Munro's publishers in the US, UK, Canada, etc. are eagerly set to republish her short story collections, as the Nobel win will result in a huge increase in book sales.

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Alice Munro: an appreciation by Margaret Atwood

In Munro's work, emotions erupt. Preconceptions crumble. Surprises proliferate. Astonishments leap out. Lurid crimes, hidden sexual excesses and strange rumours lurk beneath the surface respectability in Alice Munro's short stories. Fellow Canadian Margaret Atwood on how these tales of small-town Ontario elevated Munro to 'international literary sainthood'

http://www.theguardian.com/books/2008/oct/11/alice-munro

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Updated On: 10/10/13 at 11:02 AM

Alice Munro wins Nobel Prize for Literature

Posted: 10/10/13 at 11:32am

All my Canadian facebook friends are very happy.

Alice Munro wins Nobel Prize for Literature

Posted: 10/10/13 at 6:04pm

So happy for this! She and Atwood are such faves of mine!!

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Alice Munro wins Nobel Prize for Literature

Posted: 10/10/13 at 6:59pm

She is incredible. Richly deserved.

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