Anne Carson wins Nobel Prize in literature 2026

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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. 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”. 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. 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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