Now that Alice Munro has won the Nobel Prize for Literature, her previously low profile in South Africa is bound to change.
It was a simple declarative sentence, as are all Nobel Prize announcements…
Canadian Alice Munro has won the Nobel Prize in Literature for her contribution towards the short story genre.
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/ 26 February 2008
”I am alone next to the pool at Le Prince Maurice Hotel in Mauritius. In contrast, all the people around me are paired off. Every coupling is a story pitted with conflict, resolution, stalemates, passions, misunderstandings, wars and truces. A pity, then, how little hope they have of picking up a good modern novel and finding some reflection of, or consolation for, or explication of, their private experiences,” writes Tim Lott.