Alice Munro Wins Booker International Prize

Canadian short story writer Alice Munro has won the third Booker International Prize. The prize is awarded every two years for an entire body of work and is open to writers from around the world. The first International Prize was awarded to Albanian writer Ismail Kadare in 2005. Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe won it in 2007. Munro has a new collection of stories, Too Much Happiness, coming out in November.