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| Alice Munro. Pic c/o AP |
Newly
announced winner of Nobel Prize for Literature, Canadian short author, Alice
Munro, 82, will not attend the award ceremony to receive her prize when the
event holds on December 10.
The Swedish
Academy cites “poor health”, and declines to mention Munro’s possible
representative to receive the $1.2 million worth award on her behalf. Academy
secretary, Peter Englund discloses that Munro had declined the invitation.
Truly a
"master of the contemporary short story", Munro has published more
than 12 titles in the last 40 years. Most of her themes focus lives of girls
and women in farming communities of her home, southwestern Ontario, Canada.
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