WHO WON?
Canadian author Alice Munro, 82.
FOR WHAT?
The Swedish Academy, which selects the winners, called Munro a "master of the contemporary short story."
NOTABLE WORKS
"Lives of Girls and Women"; "Who Do You Think You Are?"; "The Progress of Love"; "Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage"; "Runaway."
LITERARY IMPACT
Munro has published more than a dozen collections of short stories since the 1960s, often focusing on the lives of girls and women from the towns and farming communities in her home region of southwestern Ontario. She has been compared to Anton Chekhov for her exploration of the submerged passions and dramas in quiet provincial lives. The Nobel academy hailed "her finely tuned storytelling, which is characterized by clarity and psychological realism."
Source: http://www.startribune.com/entertainment/books/227206361.html
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