Ill health keeps Canadian author from Nobel ceremony: academy

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Ill health keeps Canadian author from Nobel ceremony: academy

<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/ill-health-keeps-canadian-author-nobel-ceremony-academy-095758831.html"><img src="http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/oof8.3gcF.sQWXSMcB0cjw--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9NzU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2013-10-18T095758Z_1_CBRE99H0RPO00_RTROPTP_2_NOBEL-LITERATURE.JPG" width="130" height="86" alt="Customer looks at a window display congratulating Canadian author Munro at bookstore Munro's Books after she won Nobel Prize for Literature in Victoria, British Columbia" align="left" title="Customer looks at a window display congratulating Canadian author Munro at bookstore Munro's Books after she won Nobel Prize for Literature in Victoria, British Columbia" border="0" /></a>STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Canadian Nobel Prize winning author Alice Munro will be unable to attend the Stockholm awards ceremony in December because of ill health, the head of the Swedish Academy said on Friday. Short story writer Munro, 82, revealed in 2009 that she had undergone coronary bypass surgery and had had cancer treatment. She announced this year she had decided to retire from writing. &quot;Her health is simply not good enough,&quot; Academy head Peter Englund said in a blog post, without giving details. &quot;All involved, including Mrs Munro herself, regret this. ...</p><br clear="all"/>

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