2013 Nobel Prize in Literature

The 2013 Nobel Prize in Literature has been awarded to Alice Munro. The prize was announced by the Swedish Academy in Stockholm on 10 October 2013.

The citation

The citation reads: "master of the contemporary short story".

The laureate

Alice Munro was born in 1931 in Wingham, Canada.

Why it matters

The Canadian writer is celebrated for short stories set largely in small-town Ontario. She is the first writer based in Canada to receive the literature prize.

The prize

The prize is worth 8 million Swedish kronor. It will be presented at a ceremony in Stockholm on 10 December, the anniversary of the death of Alfred Nobel, the Swedish inventor of dynamite whose will founded the prizes in 1895.