![]() Dear Life, the collection of stories that came out in 2012, would be her last, she said. She said the prize would not change her decision announced early this year to stop writing. The award is likely to be the capstone to her career. She brought a modesty and subtle wit to her work that her admirers often traced to her background growing up in rural Canada. On the way, she revolutionised the architecture of short stories, often beginning a story in an unexpected place and then moving backward or forward in time. I suppose that my trying to get so much into stories has been a compensation.” “Then I found that they were all I could do, and so I faced that. “For years and years I thought that stories were just practice, till I got time to write a novel,” she told The New Yorker in 2012. She added, “I would really hope this would make people see the short story as an important art, not just something you played around with until you got a novel.” But she herself started writing that way. She said she always viewed her chances of winning the Nobel as “one of those pipe dreams” that “might happen, but it probably wouldn’t”. It seems just so splendid a thing to happen, I can’t describe it, it’s more than I can say,” she said. Sounding a bit groggy, and at times emotional, she spoke with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation just a few minutes later by telephone. Munro found out about the prize while visiting her daughter in Victoria, British Columbia, who woke her up at 4 am with the news. ![]()
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