Sales of books by Canadian short-story writer Alice Munro have spiked in Canada and around the world since she won the Nobel Prize for literature. Sales increased by 4,424 per cent in Canada according to a study released by BookNet Canada, a non-profit industry group that tracks sales and inventory.
Sales of translated books increased by 4,213 per cent in Italy and by 1,890 per cent in Spain.
English book sales jumped 2,625 per cent in Ireland and 369 per cent in Australia.
Munro’s daughter Jenny is in Stockholm, Sweden where she has received the 1.2 million-dollar award on her behalf. The 82-year-old author is too frail to travel and has granted very few interviews since winning.
Munro had previously won the Man Booker International Prize for her entire body of work as well as several Canadian and other international awards.
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