2013諾貝爾文學(xué)獎：艾麗斯•芒羅
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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.
【新聞快訊】
瑞典當(dāng)?shù)貢r間10月10日下午1時(北京時間10月10日晚7時)，瑞典學(xué)院公布了2013年諾貝爾文學(xué)獎得主為加拿大知名女作家艾麗斯·芒羅(Alice Munro)。頒獎詞為“當(dāng)代短篇小說大師”。她將得到由諾貝爾基金會提供的800萬瑞典克朗的獎金。而此前的得獎熱門人選村上春樹再次無緣諾獎。
門羅是諾貝爾文學(xué)獎歷史上獲此殊榮的第13位女性作家，主要作品有《逃離》、《快樂影子舞》、《愛的進(jìn)程》等。她以創(chuàng)作短篇小說見長，多講述小地方普通人特別是女性的隱含悲劇命運(yùn)的平凡生活。
