Nobel Prize Literature 2013 won Canada's Alice Munro
Canada's Alice
Munro won the Nobel Literature Prize 2013 for her short stories that focus on
the frailties of the human condition. The jury honoured Munro as a 'master of
the contemporary short story'.
Her stories are often set in small town environments, where the
struggle for a socially acceptable existence often results in strained
relationships and moral conflicts -- problems that stem from generational
differences and colliding life ambitions.
She's the first Canadian writer to receive the prestigious $1.2
million award since Saul Bellow, who won in 1976 and left for the US as a boy. Munro
is just the 13th woman to win the Nobel Literature Prize since it was first
awarded in 1901.
Munro's writing has brought her
numerous awards. She won a National Book Critics Circle prize for ``Hateship,
Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage,'' and is a three-time winner of the
Governor General's prize, Canada's highest literary honor.
Often compared to Anton Chekhov, the
82-year-old writer has attained near-canonical status as a thorough, but
forgiving, documenter of the human spirit.Her published work often turns on
the difference between Munro's growing up in Wingham, a conservative Canadian
town west of Toronto, and her life after the social revolution of the 1960s.
