Canadian author Alice Munro wins Nobel Prize for Literature
加拿大八旬女作家获诺贝尔文学奖
Canadian author Alice Ann Munro has won the Nobel Prize for Literature. Winner of the 2009 Man Booker International Prize for her lifetime body of work, she is also a three-time winner of Canada’s Governor General’s Award for fiction.
The locus of Munro’s fiction is her native southwestern Ontario. Her "accessible, moving stories" explore human complexities in a seemingly effortless style. Munro’s writing has established her as "one of Canada's greatest contemporary writers of fiction."