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
2012 Man Booker Prize to "The Times", where he became editor in 1992. In 2002 he went from "The Times" to a post as editor of the "TLS". Stothard is an honorary fellow of Trinity College, Oxford, and President of the Classical Association. He has written two non-fiction books based on his own experiences: "Thirty Days: A Month at the Heart of Blair's War" (2003), and "On the Spartacus Road, a Spectacular Journey Through Ancient Italy" (2010). In preparation for the task as chair of the Booker jury, Stothard read 145 books in seven months, and made sure the other jury members had done