Canadian author Alice Munro hopes her Nobel Prize win in literature will 'make people see the short story as an important art'.
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Alice Munro: Hope this makes people see the short story as an important art

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“It is so surprising, and so wonderful,” Alice Munro told the first reporter who called her after she had been woken with the news she had won the Nobel Prize in Literature on Thursday (October 10).

And the surprise was still there as the 82 year old author talked to other journalists through the day about being the first Canada-based writer to win the Nobel in Literature.

She also underlined the importance of the fact that the Nobel had gone to a short story writer. “I would really hope that this would make people see the short story as an important art.”

Munro is the 13th women to win a Nobel in Literature and the 27th author writing in English.

RCI’s Wojtek Gwiazda has a report.

More information:
CBC News – Alice Munro is 1st Canadian woman to win Nobel literature prize – here
Nobel Prize announcement in literature – here
Nobel’s Permanent Secretary of Swedish Academy Peter Englund on Alice Munro – here
Alice Munro publisher’s info – here

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