Canadian author Alice Munro has won the 2013 Nobel Prize for Literature.

Making the announcement, Peter Englund, permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy, called her a "master of the contemporary short story".

The 82-year-old, whose books include Dear Life and Dance of the Happy Shades, is only the 13th woman to win the prize since its inception in 1901.

"I knew I was in the running, yes, but I never thought I would win," Munro told Canadian media.

Presented by the Nobel Foundation, the award - which is presented to a living writer - is worth eight million kronor (£770,000).

Munro said in an interview that Dear Life would "probably" be her last book
Previous winners include literary giants such as Rudyard Kipling, Toni Morrison and Ernest Hemingway.

Mr Englund told The Associated Press that he had not been able to contact Munro ahead of the announcement so left a message on her answering machine, informing her of her win.

"She has taken an art form, the short story, which has tended to come a little bit in the shadow behind the novel, and she has cultivated it almost to perfection,'' he added.

Munro, who began writing in her teenage years, published her first story, The Dimensions of a Shadow, in 1950.

She had been studying English at the University of Western Ontario at the time.



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So I don make front page again? I can't fit shout ooo. I go come back come post better thing, make I sip my Alomo bitters finish

Na patience jonathan suppose win am joor, dem do ojoro..

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Congrats....still hoping for Chimamanda Adichie to win the prize some day!*smiles*

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I'm really working hard to win this award.God bless me.make me self rep.

thats good

Congrat

good 4ha

Let's hope Malala wins the noble peace priZe tomorrow. That would make her the youngest of all winners!

Meanwhile congrats madam u remind me of my late mum who happens to be ur namesake!

Congrats Madam Alice!

It's never too late to reach the peak of one's dreams so far there is still breath in us- lesson learnt from this.

kudus to her...one of my ambitions though.

Fp

congrat old mama....I know I will be there one day....still working on my novel

Congratulations to Alice Munro!

She joins a group of talented and well deserving writers who have distinguished themselves in the Literary world.

Most Nigerians will be proud that we have an eminent and notable son- Professor Akinwande Oluwole Soyinka who is included in that select list

DonColz1: Na patience jonathan suppose win am joor, dem do ojoro..

Her own na Nobel Prize for English Grammar.

Congrats to an achiever. Now we all know

DonColz1: Na patience jonathan suppose win am joor, dem do ojoro..

my fellow widows, the nobel prize people like to be ojoro-ing us. We will not frustrated in them

DonColz1: Na patience jonathan suppose win am joor, dem do ojoro..

she is still the first lady of 160million peoples' country. What is the number of my or your mother? Let respect our leader and pray for them! We must abstain from making derogatory remark about our leaders!

Messilo: she is still the first lady of 160million peoples' country. What is the number of my or your mother? Let respect our leader and pray for them! We must abstain from making derogatory remark about our leaders!

Why?

Because?

Congrats madam!

82? Dem been dey waiit make she die but the old woman no gree..
Good for her..

Na for this kain thread you go hardly see comments reach page1.. No need to explain why..lol
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All izz still well!

yuzedo: Was too busy to follow the speculations, but congrats to Alice, and to Canada... Mo Yan did it for China last year, who's doing it for Africa next year?

Ishilove

Double

Pretty Prisca: Congrats....still hoping for Chimamanda Adichie to win the prize some day!*smiles*

wishful thinking does no harm

Soyinka can do it again.

Pretty Prisca: Congrats....still hoping for Chimamanda Adichie to win the prize some day!*smiles*

Why,how?What for?

blessedmayor: kudus to her...one of my ambitions though.

you cant be ambitious to win the NOBEL PRIZE. Let your educational works speak for you. Nobel Prize is not by ambition, its by the grace of your works.