Canadian short-story writer Alice Munro won the 2013 Nobel Prize for Literature, The Wall Street Journal informs.
The Swedish Academy, which awarded Ms. Munro the 8 million Swedish-kronor ($1.25 million) prize in Stockholm on Thursday, said in a brief statement that it picked the 82-year-old author because she is the “master of the contemporary short story.”
In an interview broadcast on the official Nobel Prize website, the Academy’s Permanent Secretary Peter Englund said Ms. Munro is “a fantastic portrayer of human beings.”
“One of my personal favorites is a book that came out in 2006, which is called ‘The View from Castle Rock,'” Mr. Englund said.
