Culture of Canada win the Man Booker Prize for "The English Patient". Margaret Atwood won the Booker in 2000 for "The Blind Assassin" and Yann Martel won it in 2002 for the "Life of Pi". Carol Shields's "The Stone Diaries" won the Governor General's Awards in Canada in 1993, the 1995 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and the 1994 National Book Critics Circle Award. In 2013, Alice Munro was the first Canadian to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for her work as "master of the modern short story". Munro is also a recipient of the Man Booker International Prize for her lifetime
The Element of Water Book of the Year award. The Element of Water The Element of Water is a 2001 novel by Welsh author Stevie Davies. Published by The Women's Press, it was longlisted for the Booker Prize in 2001, and for the Orange Women's Prize for Fiction in 2002; it won the Wales Book of the Year in 2002. The twin narratives of "The Element of Water" take place in 1945 and 1958. Paul Dahl and Michael Quantz grew up together in pre-war Germany. During their youth they were inseparable, but as adulthood approaches and Nazism continues its inexorable march, they find they