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 Alice Munro: Wins UK award
There is good news for all the book lovers. Canadian short story writer Alice Munro has won 60,000-pound ($96,000) Man Booker International Prize on Wednesday.
This seventy seven year old Alice became the third author to have win the biennial prize, the international version of Britain's top literary award, the Man Booker Prize.
"I am totally amazed and delighted," added Munro, one of Canada's most celebrated writers who is highly acclaimed for her short stories . She beat competition from shortlisted authors namely Peter Carey, V.S. Naipaul, and Mario Vargas Llosa.
In a statement the panel of judges said, "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.
It is also written, "To read Alice Munro is to learn something every time that you never thought of before."
The Man Booker International Prize is awarded to a living author who has published fiction either originally in English or whose work is generally available in English.
The winner has been selected by a panel of judges, which is headed by U.S. author Jane Smiley this year. Unlike the Booker, which felicitates a single book, the international version rewards a body of work.
Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe won the 2007 prize and Albanian Ismail Kadare won the inaugural prize in the year 2005.
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