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. The prize, different from the annual Booker Prize for Fiction, is awarded once every two years to a living author […]
Alice Munro wins Man Booker International
May 27th, 2009 | by Amit Sahrawat | published in General Awareness