Alice Munro

Nobel Lecture


Nobel Lecture in absentia, by Alice Munro

In Her Own Words

The 2013 Nobel Lecture in Literature was replaced by a pre-recorded video conversation with the Laureate: “Alice Munro: In Her Own Words”, shown at the Swedish Academy on 7 December 2013.

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English
English (pdf, 1.38 MB)
Swedish
Swedish (pdf, 202 kB)

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