On 10th October 2013 in Stockholm Sweden, Alice
Munro was announced winner of the 2013 Nobel Prize for Literature. Munro who
was born in Ontario Canada on the 10th of July, 1931 has been called
“Master of the contemporary short story”. Munro, 82 is the first Canadian woman
ever to be awarded with this prestigious award, as well as the 13th
woman to win the prize which has been awarded since 1901.
Munro’s works which focuses on her native environs has
appeared in the New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly and The Paris Review. She was
previously awarded the 2009 Man Booker prize for her body of work and is a
three-time winner of Canada’s Governor’s Award for fiction in 1968, 1978 and
1986.
Her works include Dance of the Happy Shades (1968) which won
her, her first Governor General’s Award, Lives of Girls and Women (1971), Who
do you think you are? (1978),Too much Happiness (2009) among others. Click here
to download ‘Dance of the Happy Shades’
http://www.gobookee.org/search.php?q=dance+of+happy+shades
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