Atwood落选了，他们猜错了——尽管Alice Munro也是热门人选之一，但似乎不如她的同胞Atwood。不过我也惊讶，他们早知道是某个女作家获奖——文学奖不如科学奖那么有道理，凭什么去猜呢？

Atwood很欣赏Alice，曾经说过，Alice很低调，但不论她多出名，她的名气都本该更大的（She’s thekind of writer about whom it is often said — no matter how well known shebecomes — that she ought to be better known.）。美联社的报道也说，如果还有比诺奖更大的奖，Alice也该得。

Alice是百多年来第13个女性获奖者，这个数字确实是embarrassingly small。Alice是当代短篇小说大家（a master of contemporary short story），评论家们也多美誉之词：theprecision of her language; the perfection of detail; the surprise and logic ofher storytelling; the graceful, seamless shifts of moods; the intimacy withevery shade of human behavior.