How brilliant that a writer best known for her short stories has today won the 2013 Nobel Prize for Literature.
Making the announcement about Canadian author Alice Munro, 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.
Presented by the Nobel Foundation, the award - which is presented to a living writer - is worth eight million kronor (£770,000).
Mr Englund said: “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."
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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