A Nobel Prize Winner As a younger adult, author Alice Munro won three Governor General Awards (in 1968, 1978, and 1986), then as an older adult she won two Giller Prizes (in 1998 and 2004) and the Mann Booker International Prize (in 2009). In 2013, at the age of 82, she became the 13th woman, and 1st Canadian woman, to win the Nobel Prize in literature, in 2013. She was named “master of the contemporary short story.”
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