Canadian author triumphs in 2013 Nobel literature prize

Canadian author Alice Munro has
won the 2013 Nobel Prize for
Literature.

Making the announcement, Peter
Englund, permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy, called her a
"master of the contemporary short story".

The 82-year-old, whose books
include Dear Life and Dance of the
Happy Shades, is only the 13th
woman to win the prize since its
inception in 1901.

Previous winners include literary
giants such as Rudyard Kipling, Toni Morrison and Ernest Hemingway.

Presented by the Nobel Foundation, the award - which is presented to a living writer - is worth eight million kronor (£770,000). Last year's recipient was Chinese novelist Mo Yan.

Munro, who began writing in her
teenage years, published her first
story, The Dimensions of a Shadow, in 1950.

She had been studying English at the University of Western Ontario at the time.

Dance of the Happy Shades,
published in 1968, was Munro's first collection, which went on to win Canada's highest literary prize, the Governor General's Award.

In 2009, she won the Man Booker
International Prize for her entire
body of work in 2009, and has also
received The Commonwealth Writers' Prize.

She beat other established writers like Haruki Murakimi of Japan, Kenya's Ngugi wa Thiong'o and host of others to clinch the highly coveted prize..

Congrats to her.. Another woman setting the pace.