Anne Carson wins 2026 Nobel Prize in Literature
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Canadian poet, essayist and classicist Anne Carson has won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Literature, the Swedish Academy announced Thursday. The academy honored her “bold and inventive oeuvre that, in playful dialogue with the classical tradition, has created new forms for contemporary literature.”
Carson, 76, was born in Toronto and has held Icelandic citizenship since 2022. Her writing combines poetry, prose, criticism, dialogue and translation, often drawing on ancient Greek literature and mythology to explore love, desire, memory and loss.
Her best-known work, the 1998 verse novel *Autobiography of Red*, reimagines the Greek myth of Geryon as a contemporary coming-of-age story. Other works include *Eros the Bittersweet*, *The Beauty of the Husband*, *Nox* and the performance piece *Norma Jeane Baker of Troy*. Carson became the first woman to win the T.S. Eliot Prize in 2001 for *The Beauty of the Husband*.
Swedish Academy permanent secretary Ingrid Carlberg said Carson was in Iceland when informed by telephone and was surprised and happy. Carson is the 19th woman among 123 literature laureates. The prize carries an award of 12 million Swedish kronor, approximately $1.2 million.
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Anne Carson wins 2026 Nobel Prize in Literature
Canadian poet, essayist and classicist Anne Carson has won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Literature, the Swedish Academy announced Thursday. The academy honored her “bold and inventive oeuvre that, in playful dialogue with the classical tradition, has created new forms for contemporary literature.”
Carson, 76, was born in Toronto and has held Icelandic citizenship since 2022. Her writing combines poetry, prose, criticism, dialogue and translation, often drawing on ancient Greek literature and mythology to explore love, desire, memory and loss. She has taught classics at institutions including Princeton University, New York University and McGill University.
Her best-known work, the 1998 verse novel *Autobiography of Red*, reimagines the Greek myth of Geryon as a contemporary coming-of-age story. Other works include *Eros the Bittersweet*, *The Beauty of the Husband*, *Nox* and the performance piece *Norma Jeane Baker of Troy*. Carson became the first woman to win the T.S. Eliot Prize in 2001 for *The Beauty of the Husband*.
Swedish Academy permanent secretary Ingrid Carlberg said Carson was in Iceland when informed by telephone and was surprised and happy. Carson is the 19th woman among 123 literature laureates. The prize carries an award of 12 million Swedish kronor, approximately $1.2 million.
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