The votes are in, and the winners have been announced! Here are the authors and books that received major literary awards in 2013:
THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE – Alice Munro
Cited as a “master of the contemporary short story”, Munro is the first Canadian to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature. She is also a three-time winner of Canada’s Governor General’sAward for Fiction. Her works include:
Dance of the Happy Shades (1968)
The Progress of Love (1986)
The Love of a Good Woman (1998)
Dear Life(2012)
THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION – Adam Johnson
Johnson is a South Dakota native and Associate Professor in Creative Writing at Stanford University. He received the Pulitzer for The Orphan Master’s Son. His works include:
Emporium(2002)
Parasites Like Us (2003)
The Orphan Master’s Son (2012)
THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION – James McBride
McBride is a writer and musician whose 1996 memoir, The Color of Water, was a huge bestseller. He received the National Book Award for The Good Lord Bird. His works include:
A native of New Zealand, Catton attended the Iowa Writers’ Workshop in 2008. She received the Booker Prize for The Luminaries and is the youngest recipient (at age 28) of that award. Her works include: