SWEDEN: The Swedish Academy announces Canadian Alice Munro as this year's winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature

Record ID: 187276

  • Title: SWEDEN: The Swedish Academy announces Canadian Alice Munro as this year's winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature
  • Date: 10th October 2013
  • Summary: STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN (OCTOBER 10, 2013) (REUTERS) **CONTAINS FLASH PHOTOGRAPHY** PERMANENT SECRETARY OF THE SWEDISH ACADEMY, PETER ENGLUND, WALKING THROUGH DOORS AHEAD OF ANNOUNCING NOBEL PRIZE WINNER IN LITERATURE ENGLUND MAKING ANNOUNCEMENT IN SWEDISH (SOUNDBITE) (English) PERMANENT SECRETARY OF THE SWEDISH ACADEMY PETER ENGLUND SAYING: "And in English. The Nobel prize in literature for 2013 is awarded to the Canadian author Alice Munro, master of the contemporary short story." ENGLUND LEAVING
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  • Location: Sweden
  • Country: Sweden
  • Topics: Arts / Culture / Entertainment / Showbiz
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  • Story Text: Canadian Alice Munro won the Nobel Prize in Literature for being the "master of the contemporary short story," the award-giving body said on Thursday (October 10).
    Munro was awarded a prize of 8 million crowns ($1.25 million).
    After making the announcement in Swedish, the permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy Peter Englund then spoke to the media in English.

    "The Nobel prize in literature for 2013 is awarded to the Canadian author Alice Munro, master of the contemporary short story," he said.
    Eighty-two year old Munro started writing stories in her teens. She is mainly known for her short stories and has published many collections over the years. Her works include "The View from Castle Rock" in 2006 and "Too Much Happiness" three years later.
    Munro lives in Clinton, not far from her childhood home in southwestern Ontario, Canada.
    In 2009, she revealed that she had undergone coronary bypass surgery and been treated for cancer. She is known to be averse to publicity and rarely gives interviews.
    The literature prize is the fourth of this year's crop of prizes, which were established in the will of Swedish dynamite inventor Alfred Nobel and awarded for the first time in 1901.
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