As usual with the crowd anxiously waiting for the news about the Nobel Prize in Literature at the Swedish Academy in Stockholm City center, Peter Englund, the permanent Secretary of the Swedish Academy came out precisely in time.
"The Nobel Prize in Literature for 2013 is awarded to the Canadian author Alice Munro for "master of the contemporary short story."
In an interview, Englund said his personal favorite book of Munro was about her own family background "The View from Castle Rock" in 2006.
Englund said Munro mostly wrote about small town environment.
"She almost exclusively what happens almost exclusively takes place in southwest Ontario on the edge of Canada, a very flat rural area with rivers and small towns, that's her environment. That's where she finds her subject and where she finds her people. "
He said that Munro is very good at capturing the moods of people.
"No one has better deconstructed the central moment of romantic love…A quotation goes like this. It was a miracle, it was a mistake, it was what she dreamed of, it was not what she wanted to. Having this ability to pick out different people not knowing exactly how they should react. She is a fantastic portrayer of human being."
Born in a small rural area in Canada's Southwest Province of Ontaria, with a teacher and farmer parents, Munro studied journalism and English at the University of Western Ontario.
She got married when she was just 20 without finishing the university. But she began to write stories in her teens and published her first book in 1968.
Her most recent collection is Dear Life published in 2012.
For CRI, this is Chen Xuefei reporting from Stockholm.
