Alice Munro wins Nobel Prize for Literature

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

The 82-year-old was praised by the Swedish Academy responsible for selecting Nobel winners as the "master of the contemporary short story."

Munro is the first Canadian writer to be awarded the accolade since Saul Bellow in 1976. Munro has won numerous awards for her writing, including the Man Booker International Prize in 2009.

Often compared to Anton Chekhov, her work often focuses on impact of the social revolution of the 1960s, a period she described in an AP interview in 2003 as "wonderful."