"I knew I was in the running, yes, but I never thought I would win," – Alice Munro when contacted by The Canadian Press in Victoria.
Alice Munro The 82 year old Canadian author has been awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature as “master of the contemporary short story". A look at her career:
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1968 “Dance of the Happy Shades”
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"I'm particularly glad that winning this award will please so many Canadians," she said. "I'm happy, too, that this will bring more attention to Canadian writing." – Alice Munro
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1971 “Lives of Girls and Women”
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1974 “Something I’ve Been Meaning to Tell You”
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1978 “Who Do You Think You Are?”
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1982 “The Moons of Jupiter”
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1986 “The Progress of Love”
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Alice Munro (left) receives her 1986 Governor General's Literary Award for english-language fiction writing from Governor General Jeanne Sauve in Toronto May 27, 1987. (CP PHOTO/Blaise Edwards) -
1990 “Friend of My Youth”
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Former Ontario Culture and Communications Minsiter Rosario Marchses presents author Alice Munro with the $10,000 Trillium Book Award in Toronto in this April 16, 1991 photo. (CP PHOTO/Bill Becker) -
1994 “Open Secrets”
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1996 “Selected Stories”
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1998 “The Love of a Good Woman”
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2001 “Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage”
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2003 “No Love Lost”
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2004 “Vintage Munro,” (collection of previously released stories)
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Alice Munro poses with the Giller Prize in Toronto on Thursday Nov. 11, 2004 after winning it for her book "Runaway". (CP PHOTO/Frank Gunn) -
2004 “Runaway”
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2006 “The View From Castle Rock”
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2009 “Too Much Happiness”
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Canadian Author Alice Munro winner of the 2009 Booker International Prize at attends a press conference at Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland, Thursday, June, 25, 2009. (AP Photo/Peter Morrison) -
2012 “Dear Life
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October 10, 2013 Awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature as “master of the contemporary short story"
Peter Englund, permanent secretary of the Royal Swedish Academy, steps out from the Academy rooms in Stockholm, Sweden Thursday Oct. 10, 2013 to announce the Nobel literature prizewinner 2013 to be Canada's Alice Munro. (AP Photo/Anders Wiklund) -
The books of 2013 Nobel literature prizewinner, Canadian Alice Munro, are snatched from the shelves of a Stockholm bookstore, minutes after the prize announcement from the Royal academy, Thursday Oct.10, 2013. (AP Photo/Jessica Gow)