A Canadian Takes The Prize

   82 year old Canadian author Alice Munroe has been awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. She's the 110th winner in the category, the 13th woman to win the distinction and the first Canadian to do it.
   The Ontario born writer has been recognised several times in the past, most recently winning the Trillium Book Award. Her 3rd.
   The Swedish academy that selects Nobel Literature winners calls her a master of the contemporary short story.
   She'll get the award December 10th at a ceremony in Stockholm, Sweden.
   The prizes are named after Alfred Nobel, a chemist who invented dynamite, and owned Swedish arms maker Bofors, and eventually held 350 patents. He set up the prizes in 1895, the year before he died.
   With one notable exception, all the Nobel prizes are awarded at a ceremony in Sweden. The exception is the Peace Prize, which is handed out here:

   That's the city hall in Oslo, Norway, and that's one of the murals on the walls inside the building. I didn't have a picture of the actual venue on hand.
   More Nobel prizes will be announced tomorrow, and again Monday.

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