Alice Munro won the prestigious award

Alice Munro a Canadian short story writer won the prestigious Man Booker International Prize. She will also get ₤ 60,000 cash along with the award. The prize will be received by her on June 25, 2009 at a ceremony in Dublin. Alice Munro stood out as winner among the other literary experts like Nobel laureate V.S. Naipaul, Mario Varges Llosa and Mahasweta Devi.

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This award is different from the Annual Booker Prize for fiction. Man Booker International prize is awarded once every two years to a living author for his or her lifetime achievements. Previous winners are Ismail Kadare (2005) and Chinua Achebe (2007). The 78 years old writer from Canada was amazed and delighted after winning the prize.

Alice Munro got recognition with her very first collection of stories, “Dance of the Happy Shades”, published in 1968. It won the Governor General’s literary award, Canada’s most prestigious literary prize. Her other successful works include ‘Lives of girls’ and ‘Women’ (1971), which won the Canadian Booksellers Association International Book year award, and ‘The Beggar maid’, which was shortlisted for the annual Booker Prize in 1980.

In the month of October this year her latest collection of short stories, ‘Too much Happiness’ will be published.

With lots of love,

Madhu Vamsi...