2014届高考英语考前突破阅读理解能力：《爱丽丝·门罗获2013诺贝尔文学奖》.docVIP

爱丽丝·门罗获2013诺贝尔文学奖 Canadian author Alice Munro has won the 2013 Nobel Prize for Literature. 加拿大作家爱丽丝·门罗获得2013年度诺贝尔文学奖。 ? Making the announcement, Peter Englund, permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy, called her a master of the contemporary short story ? The 82-year-old, whose books include Dear Life and Dance of the Happy Shades, is only the 13th woman to win the prize since its inception in 1901.? ? I knew I was in the running, yes, but I never thought I would win, Munro told Canadian media. ? Presented by the Nobel Foundation, the award - which is presented to a living writer - is worth eight million kronor (￡770,000). ? Previous winners include literary giants such as Rudyard Kipling, Toni Morrison and Ernest Hemingway. ? Mr Englund told The Associated Press that he had not been able to contact Munro ahead of the announcement so left a message on her answering machine, informing her of her win. ? She has taken an art form, the short story, which has tended to come a little bit in the shadow behind the novel, and she has cultivated it almost to perfection, he added. ? Munro, who began writing in her teenage years, published her first story, The Dimensions of a Shadow, in 1950. ? She had been studying English at the University of Western Ontario at the time.