2013 Nobel Prize in Literature

20px 2013 Nobel Prize in Literature Alice Munro Swedish Academy 1901 https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/2013/summary/ 2013 laureate Alice Munro 2006 (cropped).jpg "master of the contemporary short story." 2013 10 10 yes (announcement) 10 December 2013 (ceremony) Stockholm, Sweden 2012 Nobel Prize in Literature 2014 The 2013 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to the Canadian writer Alice Munro (1931–2024) as "master of the contemporary short story."The Nobel Prize in Literature 2013 nobelprize.org She was the first Canadian and the 13th woman to receive the prize.Saul Bellow, the 1976 laureate, was born in Canada, but he moved to the United States at age nine and became a US citizen at twenty-six.Alice Munro britannica.comhttps://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/2013/press.pdf The Nobel Prize in Literature 2013 – Press Release 10 October 2013 10 October 2013https://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/oct/10/alice-munro-wins-nobel-prize-in-literature#:~:text=Munro%20is%20the%20second%20Canadian,Bellow%20%E2%80%93%20and%20the%2013th%20woman. Alice Munro wins Nobel prize in literature 10 October 2013 21 May 2021 The Guardian Charlotte Higgins Laureate Alice Munro Alice Munro dedicated her literary career almost exclusively to the short story genre. She grew up in a small Canadian town – Huron County, Ontario – the kind of environment that often provided the backdrops for her stories. These often accommodated the entire epic complexity of the novel in just a few short pages and the underlying themes of her work were often relationship problems and moral conflicts. The relationship between memory and reality was another recurring theme she uses to create tension. With subtle means, she was able to demonstrate the impact that seemingly trivial events can have on a person's life. Her famous short story collections include Dance of the Happy Shades (1969), Who Do You Think You Are? (1978), The Progress of Love (1986), The Love of a Good Woman (1998), and Runaway (2004).Alice Munro – Facts nobelprize.org Candidates On Ladbrokes, Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami and Alice Munro were the favourites to win the 2013 Nobel Prize in Literature, followed by Svetlana Alexievich (who was subsequently awarded the 2015 Nobel Prize in Literature), Joyce Carol Oates and Péter Nádas. Other top favourites included Algerian Assia Djebar, American Thomas Pynchon, Kenyan Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Korean Ko Un and Norwegian Jon Fosse (subsequently awarded the 2023 Nobel Prize in Literature).https://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/oct/09/nobel-prize-literature-alice-munro-second-favourite Nobel prize in literature: Munro emerges as second favourite to Murakami Bury, Liz 10 October 2013 The Guardian Reactions The choice of Alice Munro was well received. "Very few writers are her equal, she gets to the heart of what it is to be human", BBC arts editor Will Gompertz said, adding "If she hadn't won it before she died, I think it would have been a terrible, terrible omission."https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-24477246 Alce Munro wins Nobel Prize for Literature 10 October 2013 BBC "This is the Nobel announcement that has made me happiest in the whole of my life" novelist A.S. Byatt said, "She has done more for the possibilities and the form of the short story than any other writer I know."https://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/oct/10/alice-munro-wins-nobel-prize-in-literature Alice Munro wins Nobel prize in literature 10 October 2013 The Guardian "She is our Chekhov and will outlive most of her contemporaries", author Cynthia Ozick said.https://www.lefigaro.fr/livres/2013/10/10/03005-20131010ARTFIG00486-prix-nobelde-litterature-alice-munro-une-canadienne-a-l-honneur.php Prix Nobel de littérature: Alice Munro, une Canadienne à l'honneur 10 October 2013 Le Figaro Award ceremony Due to her health condition and old age, Alice Munro was not able to personally participate in the award ceremony in Stockholm. Jenny Munro, her daughter, received the diploma, medal and monetary prize from King Carl XVI Gustaf on her behalf on December 10, 2013.Prize presentation nobelprize.org Peter Englund, permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy, expressed the rightfulness of bestowing Munro the Nobel prize, by saying: "The seemingly prosaic surface level in Alice Munro’s short stories is interwoven in an interesting way with her writing style and distinctive storytelling technique. The minimalist style we encounter is clean, transparent, subtle and stunningly precise. It is a challenge to find an unessential word or a superfluous phrase. Reading one of her texts is like watching a cat walk across a laid dinner table. A brief short story can often cover decades, summarising a life, as she moves deftly between different periods. No wonder Alice Munro is often able to say more in 30 pages than an ordinary novelist is capable of in 300. She is a virtuoso of the elliptical and – as the Academy said in its brief prize citation – the master of the contemporary short story." References External links Prize announcement 2013 nobelprize.org Award Ceremony nobelprize.org Award ceremony speech nobelprize.org 2013 Nobel