Published in Canada last month, the book has been named a finalist for that country's Giller Prize, which Ms. Munro has won previously.
"I was just stunned that we won because the prize was in its infancy and people assumed it was an indie award [Primal Scream and Suede had won previously].
With Everyman (2006), a novel that explores illness and death, Roth became the first three-time winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, which he had won previously for Operation Shylock (1993) and The Human Stain.
If the team had won previously they were 85% likely to score, compared with only 65% when they'd lost.
Seven of the 10 winning wines had won previously.
'The fact that we have won this competition previously, means we are good enough, but it guarantees nothing.
She has won twice previously on dirt at Oaklawn Park in Hot Springs, Ark.
She has now not won a grand slam since the 1999 Australian Open, having won four previously.
He had won once previously in seven starts, and that was last September on turf at Saratoga.
Sent off the 15-8 favourite having won at Chester previously, he quickened impressively to follow up the win of Thunder Strike for the yard last season.
