Alice Munro wins Nobel Prize for Literature

Canadian author Alice Munro has won the 2013 Nobel Prize for Literature.

Making the announcement, Peter Englund, permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy, called her a "master of the contemporary short story".

Her books include Dear Life and Dance of the Happy Shades.

Previous winners of the prize include literary giants such as Rudyard Kipling, Toni Morrison and Ernest Hemingway.

Presented by the Nobel Foundation, the award - only for living writers - is worth eight million kronor (£770,000).

Last year's recipient was Chinese novelist Mo Yan. 

Original short story collections

Dance of the Happy Shades – 1968 (winner of the 1968 Governor General's Award for Fiction)

Lives of Girls and Women – 1971

Something I've Been Meaning to Tell You – 1974

Who Do You Think You Are? – 1978 (winner of the 1978 Governor General's Award for Fiction; also published as The Beggar Maid)

The Moons of Jupiter – 1982 (nominated for a Governor General's Award)

The Progress of Love – 1986 (winner of the 1986 Governor General's Award for Fiction)

Friend of My Youth – 1990 (winner of the Trillium Book Award) 

Open Secrets – 1994 (nominated for a Governor General's Award)

The Love of a Good Woman – 1998 (winner of the 1998 Giller Prize)

Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage - 2001 (recently republished as "Away From Her")

Runaway – 2004 (winner of the 2004 Giller Prize) ISBN 1-4000-4281-X

The View from Castle Rock – 2006

Too Much Happiness – 2009

Dear Life – 2012 

Selected Stories – 1996

No Love Lost – 2003

Vintage Munro – 2004

Carried Away: A Selection of Stories – 2006

New Selected Stories - 2011