Alice Munro, Canada wins Nobel Prize in literature

On 10 Oct, the Swedish Royal Academy of Sciences announced Canada's Alice Munro won the 2013 Nobel Prize in literature. She is called the "master of the contemporary short story".

Alice Munro is compared to Anton Chekhov, the 19th century Russian who is considered one of the greatest short story writers in history.

She's the first Canadian-based writer to win the literature award. “On behalf of all Canadians," Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper said in a tweet, "congratulations to Alice Munro."

Munro's most recent short story collection is titled "Dear Life." The New Yorker magazine, in an interview with her last year, said it includes "several narratives in which women in some way shake off the weight of their upbringing and do something unconventional."