Canadian writer Alice Munro wins International Booker Prize

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LONDON: Canadian short story writer Alice Munro has
won this year's Man Booker International Prize worth USD 95,000,
the judges said today.


The panel, which comprised writers Jane Smiley, Amit Chaudhuri
and Andrey Kurkov, praised the 77-year-old for the originality and
depth of her work.

"Alice Munro is mostly known as a short story writer and yet she
brings as much depth, wisdom and precision to every story as
most novelists bring to a lifetime of novels," they said.

"To read Alice Munro is to learn something every time that you
never thought of before."

Munro, who was born and still lives in Canada, published her first
collection of stories, "Dance of the Happy Shades", in 1968, which
won Canada's prestigious Governor General's Award. A clutch of
other gongs have followed.

The Man Booker International Prize is affiliated with the Booker Prize,
one of the world's most prestigious literary awards, but is unique as it
can be won by an author of any nationality providing their work is
available in English.

It is awarded every two years, and since its creation in 2005 has
been given to Albania's Ismail Kadare and Nigeria's Chinua Achebe.