It involves a hoard of media standing around a door like a poor man's paparazzi, until the permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy comes out and speaks for roughly sixty seconds. At some point the crowd cheers like degenerate gamblers with a stash of cash riding on the announcement.
Fast-forward to the 7:30 mark for an (English) interview with Peter Englund, the permanent secretary who announced the victor.
Best part? The interviewer describes having read Alice Munro "now and then over the years," and that she writes about "Canadia," a "small world...of backwater towns."
Canada--the Alabama of the north.
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