Alice Munro wins 2004 Giller Prize

Of the 94 books submitted by 35 Canadian publishers, Alice Munro's Runaway scooped the $25,000 award for the best Canadian novel or short story collection in English.

Alice Munro is a two-time Giller Prize winner, having won in 1998 for The Love of a Good Woman. Runaway is Munro's 12th book and contains eight stories with women in various life phases as central characters.

Alice Munro Biography
Giller Prize Winners over the past ten years