id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-5838 Canadian literature - Wikipedia .html text/html 4035 532 59 This group, along with Nobel Laureate Alice Munro, who has been called the best living writer of short stories in English,[9] were the first to elevate Canadian Literature to the world stage. During the post-war decades only a handful of books of any literary merit were published each year in Canada, and Canadian literature was viewed as an appendage to British and American writing. Lawrence Hill's Book of Negroes won the 2008 Commonwealth Writers' Prize Overall Best Book Award, while Alice Munro became the first Canadian to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2013.[11] Munro also received the Man Booker International Prize in 2009. Danuta Gleed Literary Award for a first collection of short fiction by a Canadian author writing in English Governor-General's Awards for the best Canadian children's literature, text-based or illustrated, in both English and French History of literature in Canada: English-Canadian and French-Canadian. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-5838.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-5838.txt