October 23, 2013, Filed Under: Authors, Books + ManuscriptsKnopf archive documents Nobel Prize–winner Alice Munro’s early struggles with the genre of the short story On Thursday, October 10, the Nobel Prize Foundation awarded the coveted Nobel Prize in Literature to author Alice Munro, making Munro the 13th woman to win the award since its inception in 1901, and the first ever female winner from Canada. Munro—unlike most previous prize winners—is renowned not for novels… read more