A basket of Munro scattered to the winds
Now that Alice Munro has won the Nobel Prize for Literature, her previously low profile in South Africa is bound to change.
Alice Munro
Long and short of literary genius
It was a simple declarative sentence, as are all Nobel Prize announcements…
Short story writer Munro takes Nobel literature prize
Canadian Alice Munro has won the Nobel Prize in Literature for her contribution towards the short story genre.
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Whatever happened to literary love?
”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.