Munro Wins Rea Award
Staff -- Publishers Weekly, 4/2/2001
The 2001 Rea award for the short story has been given to Canadian writer Alice Munro, who has published nine collections of stories. The award, which honors a living U.S. or Canadian writer who has made a significant contribution to the short story form, carries a prize of $30,000. Munro's work has won the Lannan Literary Award, the W.H. Smith Award (given to Open Secrets as the best book published in the U.K. in 1995) and the 1998 National Book Critics Circle Award for The Love of a Good Woman, which is her most recent book. Her next book, Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage, will be published by Knopf in November.
