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Press release
10 October 2013

The Nobel Prize in Literature 2013

Alice Munro

The Nobel Prize in Literature for 2013 is awarded to the Canadian author Alice Munro

master of the contemporary short story”.

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MLA style: Press release. NobelPrize.org. Nobel Prize Outreach AB 2024. Fri. 25 Oct 2024. <https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/2013/press-release/>

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