Nobel Prize for Literature 2013

On the 10th of October last year Alice Munro, a Canadian-born author won the 2013 Nobel Prize for Literature. I am of the opinion that the Nobel awards for scientific achievement have caused the Nobel Laureates for the Literature Prize to remain somewhat hidden in the shadows.

I say- "No longer!"

Alice Munro also won the 2009 Man Booker International Prize and has won the national Canadian Governor General's Award for fiction not once, not twice, but a staggering three times.  After realizing her talent for creative writing in her teenage years, she experienced work as a waitress, tobacco picker and library clerk.

Munro's first body of work was titled "Dance of the Happy Shades", published an 1968 and gaining her an immediate Governor General's award. In 1978 and two short story collections later, Munro published "Who do you think you are" (Also released as "The Beggar Maid"), earning her second Governor General's Award for fiction. Her next two short story collections were both nominated for the same award, with the latter- "The Progress of Love", published in 1986"- completing the hat-trick.

Since the 1980s, Munro has released a short story collection within every subsequent four year period. Her most recent publications had emerged in 2001, 2004, 2006, 2009 and 2012.

Be sure to read up on other Nobel Laureates for the Literature Prize and, most importantly, don't forget to check out some of their work; You don't win a Nobel Prize for nothing!

This post provides a mere taste of the literary genius that is Alice Munro. With a cohort of awards under her belt, who knows what the future may hold for this "Master of the Contemporary Short Story" (Nobel Committee judgement).

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