Alice Munro, the winner of Man Booker International Prize 2009 was born on 10 July, 1931. She is the third author to win this award, which is given every two years. The previous winners have been Ismail Kadaré (2005) and Chinua Achebe (2007).
The other contenders this time were:• Peter Carey
• Evan S Connell
• Mahasweta Devi
• E.L. Doctorow
• James Kelman
• Mario Vargas Llosa
• Arnošt Lustig
• V S Naipaul
• Joyce Carol Oates
• Antonio Tabucchi
• Ngugi Wa Thiong’O
• Dubravka Ugresic
• Ludmila Ulitskaya
“Canadian short story writer Alice Munro on Wednesday beat Mahasweta Devi and a host of other literary heavyweights, including Nobel laureate V.S. Naipaul and Mario Vargas Llosa, to win the £60,000 Man Booker International Prize”, writes Hasan Saroor in ‘The Hindu’
The prize was announced on May 27, 09 and the author was presented with a trophy and the award worth £60,000 at the ceremony was held at Trinity College, Dublin on June 25.
Her works include:The prize was announced on May 27, 09 and the author was presented with a trophy and the award worth £60,000 at the ceremony was held at Trinity College, Dublin on June 25.
• Dance of the Happy Shades: And Other Stories (1968)
• Who Do You Think You Are? - Stories by Alice Munro (1978)
• The Progress of Love (1986)
• The Love of a Good Woman : Stories
(1998)• Runaway (2004)
• The View from Castle Rock (2005)
• Too much Happiness (2009)
