Alice Munrowas celebrated for her “clean, transparent, subtle and stunningly precise” prose Tuesday as her daughter Jenny accepted theNobel Prize for Literatureon her mother’s behalf. “Munro writes about what are usually called ordinary people, but her intelligence, compassion, astonishing power of perception enable her to give their lives a remarkable dignity,” Peter Englund, permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy, said during a formal ceremony at the Stockholm Concert Hall.
The 2013 Nobel Lecture in Literature was replaced by a pre-recorded video conversation with the Laureate: "Alice Munro: In her Own Words", shown at the Swedish Academy on December 7th. You can watch the video here:http://www.nobelprize.org/mediaplayer/index.php?id=1973.