The Nobel Prize in Literature for 2013 is awarded to the Canadian author Alice Munro “master of the contemporary short story”.
2013年诺贝尔文学奖被授予加拿大女作家艾丽斯·芒罗“当代短篇小说大师” 。

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Canada's Alice Munro -- called the "master of the contemporary short story" -- won the 2013 Nobel Prize in literature, the Swedish Royal Academy of Sciences announced Thursday.

The prize committee compared the 82-year-old author 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. Saul Bellow, who won it in 1976, was born in Quebec but moved to the United States as a child and is regarded as a U.S. author.

Munro is the 13th woman to receive the literature prize.

"On behalf of all Canadians," Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper said in a tweet, "congratulations to Alice Munro."

After the prestigious award was announced, the Nobel committee said on Twitter that it hadn't been able to contact Munro and left a phone message to tell her the good news. But The Canadian Press contacted her, and she was quoted as saying the award was "quite wonderful" and she was "terribly surprised."

"I knew I was in the running, yes, but I never thought I would win," she said, according to a Toronto Star story quoting The Canadian Press.

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瑞典当地时间10月10日下午1时(北京时间10月10日晚7时),瑞典学院公布了2013年诺贝尔文学奖得主为加拿大知名女作家艾丽斯·芒罗(Alice Munro)。颁奖词为“当代短篇小说大师”。她将得到由诺贝尔基金会提供的800万瑞典克朗的奖金。而此前的得奖热门人选村上春树再次无缘诺奖。

门罗是诺贝尔文学奖历史上获此殊荣的第13位女性作家,主要作品有《逃离》、《快乐影子舞》、《爱的进程》等。她以创作短篇小说见长,多讲述小地方普通人特别是女性的隐含悲剧命运的平凡生活。

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