Today in Stockholm, the Nobel laureate in literature was announced. It is the Canadian poet Anne Carson.
The Nobel Committee awarded the prize with the following formulation: "For her audacious and inventive work, which in an interesting dialogue with classical tradition creates new forms for contemporary literature."
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The 2026 #NobelPrize in Literature is awarded to the Canadian author Anne Carson, “for her bold and inventive oeuvre that, in playful dialogue with the classical tradition, has created new forms for contemporary literature.” https://t.co/YRvlRghlGG
Anne Carson was born on June 21, 1950, in Toronto. She studied at the University of Toronto, where she received her bachelor's and master's degrees in classical philology, defended her dissertation on Sappho's work; she is a Hellenist.
Carson is a professor of classical languages and literature at universities in Canada and the USA, and a translator of Simonides, Sappho, Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Catullus.
She is the author of 18 books.
Carson's poems and essays have been translated into French, Spanish, Catalan, Italian, Polish, and Russian.
Tomorrow at 12 PM, the Nobel Peace laureate will be announced, and next Monday — the laureate in economics.
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