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STOCKHOLM – Alice Munro was celebrated for her “clean, transparent, subtle and stunningly precise” prose Tuesday as her daughter Jenny accepted the Nobel Prize for literature on her mother’s behalf.
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The author graces the prize as much as it honours her, writes Brian Bethune
Munro’s stories have inspired some extraordinary works of cinema—and some made-for-TV duds
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John Geddes on the author’s particular ‘clarity’ and ‘realism’
The celebrated author won the Nobel Prize with predictable modesty