International press reacts to Alice Munro winning Nobel Prize for literature
Posted October 10, 2013 11:44 am.
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TORONTO – Alice Munro won the Nobel Prize for literature on Thursday, becoming the first Canadian woman to do so. The win was major news in the international press. Here’s a round-up of how different outlets around the world referred to Munro in their stories:
Agence France-Presse: “as unassuming and modest as the characters in her collections of short stories and novels”; “brilliant, dignified and elegant”
CNN: “gained world renown for writing about everyday people”
The Guardian: “the Canadian doyenne of the short story”
The Independent: “a perfectionist who works for months and months on each of her stories, with little time to spare for literary festivals or parties”; “subtly political in her celebration of the human spirit and its need for freedom”
New York Times: “renowned Canadian short-story writer whose visceral work explores the tangled relationships between men and women, small-town existence and the fallibility of memory”
The New Yorker: “one of those writers who, no matter how popular her books may be, is our writer”
People’s Daily (China): “primarily known for her short stories”
USA Today: “the most popular writer to win the award”
Wall Street Journal: a writer with a “simple, easy-to-read style”
Washington Post: “there’s almost certainly no living writer who inspires quite the reverence among readers — and writers — that Munro does”
Note to readers: This is a corrected story. An earlier version inadvertently contained a satirical quote about Munro from the Washington Post.
