Man Booker International Prize winner is…

Canadian writer Alice Munro is the winner of the third Man Booker International Prize announced today. The Man Booker International Prize is worth £60,000 to the winner and is awarded once every two years to a living author for a body of work that has contributed to an achievement in fiction on the world stage. Munro is best known for her short stories and is one of Canada's most celebrated writers. Her stories frequently appear in publications such as The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, Grand Street, Mademoiselle, and The Paris Review. Her latest collection of short stories, Too Much Happiness, will be published in October 2009. The judging panel said "Alice Munro is mostly known as a short story writer and yet she brings as much depth, wisdom and precision to every story as most novelists bring to a lifetime of novels. To read Alice Munro is to learn something every time that you never thought of before." To read more about the author and award visit http://www.themanbookerprize.com/