Canada’s Alice Munro— 1 (call)the“master of the contemporary short story”—won the 2017 Nobel Prize in Literature, the Swedish Royal Academy of Sciences announced Thursday.
The prize committee compared the 82-year-old author 2 Anton Chekhov, the 19th century Russian 3 is considered one of the greatest short story writers in history.
She’s the first Canadian-based writer 4 (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 5 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, “ 6 (congratulation)to Alice Munro. ”
After the prestigious award 7 (announce), the Nobel committee said on Twitter that it hadn’t been able to contact Munro and left a phone message to tell 8 the good news. But The Canadian Press contacted her, and she was quoted as saying the award was“quite wonderful”and she was“ 9 (terrible)surprised”.
“I knew I was in the running, yes, 10 I never thought I would win, ”she said, according to a Toronto Star story quoting The Canadian Press.
【文章大意】诺贝尔奖官方宣布, 2017年诺贝尔文学奖授予加拿大女作家爱丽丝·门罗, 颁奖词称其为“当代短篇小说大师”。
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