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The Swedish Academy awarded the Nobel prize in literature to Canadian poet and essayist Anne Carson for her innovative blend of poetry, prose, and translation that reinterprets classical Greek traditions. Born in 1950, Carson is celebrated for works like "Autobiography of Red," which transforms an ancient myth into a modern narrative about teenage heartbreak. Her accolades include the TS Eliot prize, Guggenheim and MacArthur fellowships, and she has been praised by Susan Sontag as essential reading.
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Anne Carson, a 76-year-old Canadian poet, essayist, and translator, won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Literature on Thursday. The award was announced by the Swedish Academy in Stockholm. Carson received the prize "for her bold and inventive oeuvre that, in playful dialogue with the classical tradition, has created new forms for contemporary literature." Notably, she blends poetry, prose, and translation, often incorporating themes from ancient Greek and Roman texts. Her works include Eros the Bittersweet, a study of desire in ancient Greek literature, and the verse novel Autobiography of Red. Carson also translates classical Greek literature that stands independently as her own work, such as If Not, Winter based on Sappho’s poem fragments. The prize comes with 12 million Swedish kronor (£900,000).
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The Nobel prize in literature has been awarded to the Canadian poet and essayist Anne Carson, the Swedish Academy has announced.
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The academy cited the author’s “bold and inventive oeuvre that, in playful dialogue with the classical tradition, has created new forms for contemporary literature”.
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Born in 1950 in Toronto, Carson is known for work that moves freely between poetry, prose and translation, drawing heavily on the literature and mythology of the ancient Greek world.
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Carson’s first book, Eros the Bittersweet, was published in 1986, and combined literary criticism with an exploration of desire and the ancient Greek tradition.
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Her best-known work is Autobiography of Red, a 1998 novel in verse inspired by the fragments of the ancient Greek poet Stesichorus.
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It reimagines the myth of Geryon, the red-winged monster killed by Herakles, as the story of a modern teenage boy navigating heartbreak and desire.
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In 2001, she became the first woman to win the TS Eliot prize for her collection The Beauty of the Husband.
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She has also been awarded Guggenheim and MacArthur fellowships.
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Her work has attracted praise from fellow writers, including Susan Sontag, who once said: “She is one of the few writers writing in English that I would read anything she wrote.
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If there’s a magazine that has something of hers in it, I buy it automatically.”
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Carson’s books have ranged widely in form.
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Men in the Off Hours combined verse essays, poems, epitaphs and prose about artists and historical figures, and won the inaugural Griffin poetry prize in 2001.
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Decreation, another eclectic work, brought together poetry, essays and an opera.
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Nox, published in 2010, is particularly characteristic of Carson’s avante-garde approach to literature – the book takes the form of an accordion-fold box containing a reproduction of a notebook Carson made after the death of her brother.
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Her later works include Red Doc> and Float.
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The Nobel prize in literature has been awarded on 118 previous occasions since 1901.
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Recent laureates include Annie Ernaux, Bob Dylan, Abdulrazak Gurnah, Louise Glück, Peter Handke and Olga Tokarczuk.
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Last year’s recipient was the Hungarian author László Krasznahorkai, known for his dystopic and avant-garde writing.
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Carson, 76, will formally receive the medal and diploma in a ceremony in Stockholm in December.
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