FILE -- Alice Munro, a renowned Canadian short-story writer, in Clinton, Ontario, Canada, June 23, 2013. Munro, whose visceral work explores the tangled relationships between men and women, small-town existence and the fallibility of memory, won the 2013 Nobel Prize in Literature on Oct. 10. Munro, 82, is the 13th woman to win the prize. (Ian Willms/The New York Times)