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Related posts: Good things really do come in small packages: in praise of short fiction I suggest a quiet room, a place you won’t be interrupted. Torontonians, I implore you not to read her work in transit, your attention fractured by the distracting soundscape of TTC noises -the rattling and clattering, the distorted echoes of undecipherable announcements - Alice Munro's work deserves more. The fact that has made the choice to work exclusively in this form really makes people sit up and notice and realize how legitimate a form it is…” - See more at: Ī few words to those who have never read Alice Munro's work: don’t expect a plot driven machine of a work, in which pieces fit neatly into one another with mechanical precision and a clean cut, unambiguous conclusion is reached. In an interview with CBC radio's Jian Ghomeshi the morning after her win Coady said short stories were like "the red headed step child of publishing." She went on to say that "Alice Munro's choice to work exclusively in this form really makes people sit up and notice and realize how legitimate a form it is." With Coady's win, it seems that short stories are coming to the fore, due in part, I think, to Alice Munro. On November 5, Lynn Coady won the Giller Prize for her short story colllection, Hellgoing. Because it's often sort of brushed off, you know, as something that people do before they write their first novel. Well I would hope so, and I hope this would happen not just for me but for the short story in general. And the award will bring a great new readership to your work. In an interview with Adam Smith (of ) Alice Munro expressed the same hope: And I’m very happy that the Nobel Prize is winning Alice Munro new readers – every Alice Munro book we put on display at North York Central Library was snapped up soon after the announcement of her win!īut mostly, I hope this win will persuade people to read short stories. Yes, I'm proud as a Canadian, and pleased as a woman (surprisingly, the Nobel Prize has only been awarded to a woman 13 times since 1901). Seuss classic, Green Eggs and Ham – “I do not like green eggs and ham.
When I hear this sentiment expressed, I think of the maddening stubbornness of the character in the Dr.
I’ve met people who say they won't read short stories – they will only read novels. Short fiction has long been obscured by the imposing shadow of the novel. I was delighted to learn that Canadian Alice Munro, “ master of the contemporary short story,” won the 2013 Nobel Prize for literature.
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