Alice Munro Wins Booker International Prize

May 27th, 2009 it was announced that Alice Munro had won the 2009 Man Booker International Prize for fiction. The Canadian short story writer was the third writer to win the prize. See the official announcement for more details.

The prize is awarded every two years. Unlike the annual Booker, which recognizes a single work of fiction in English, the International Prize is awarded for an entire body of work and is open to writers from around the world. The first International Prize was went to Albanian writer Ismail Kadare in 2005; Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe won it in 2007.

Munro has a new collection of stories coming out in November in the US: Too Much Happiness: Stories.

These are some of Munro's works available in Harford County Public Library:
Runaway
The View from Castle Rock
Hateship, friendship, courtship, loveship, marriage
The Love of a Good Woman

See also Readers Place for a list of short story collections by other writers.