2013 Nobel Laureate in Literature 

──Alice Munro

    For the citation(表彰), "master of the contemporary short story", Alice Munro won the 2013 Nobel Prize in Literature.

    In 1968, her first collection of short stories, Dance of the Happy Shades, won the Governor General's Award, which is Canada's highest literary prize. It also opened the writing career for her.

    Most of her stories are set in her hometown, Ontario, telling about the love and the daily life of the civilian, involves illness and death.

    A few theme of her early stories are the narratives of a girl growing up and the compromise with her family and the town she lives in, such as Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage and Runaway.

    "She has shifted her focus to the travails of middle age, of women alone, and of the elderly. It is a mark of her style for characters to experience a revelation that sheds light on, and gives meaning to, an event."

(from wikipedia)

    Because of the special writing style, some critics have discussed whether Munro's works are short stories. But Alex Keegan gave a simple answer, "Who cares? In most Munro stories there is as much as in many novels."

    Her most famous collections are Dance of the Happy, Shades Lives of Girls and Women, and Who Do You Think You Are?

My thought

    Many authors are never known by us until they won the Nobel Prize, Alice Munro is an example. But their works must have high enough level, or some special characteristics to won this prize.
    I will choose one of her collections in the bookstore, and spend my free time to immerse in the sincere emotion she brings to me.