Alice Munroe gives Nobel Literature Prize acceptance speech in her house

The winner of this year's Nobel Prize for Literature says she was first inspired to write as a young girl after reading a tale with a sad ending and felt compelled to write one with a happy ending.
In the tale, a mermaid was trying to win the love of a prince and she went to great pains to achieve the desires of her heart.  Seeing the troubles that the mermaid went through, she decided to write a story that had happy ending.
At the time, though, she was not too concerned that her stories would be published. But with that one gesture, she embarked on a journey that this year saw her win the Nobel Prize for Literature. But because of her age (she is 82) and frail health, she was not able to travel to Stockholm to receive her prize.
In what The New Yorker said was her acceptance speech for the prize, delivered in her home in Canada, Munroe also said that as she grew older, she found that her life influenced her creative work more and more, influencing in the characters she was creating.
In its citation of her work, the Nobel Literature Prize committee described Munroe as a "master of the contemporary short story".
Below is the link for the video in which she gave her views on her writing.
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/books/2013/12/alice-munros-living-room-nobel-acceptance.html.

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