Anne Carson, the Canadian poet, essayist, professor of classics and translator, has won the 2026 Nobel Prize in literature. <\/p>\n
The prize, announced at the Swedish Academy in Stockholm on Thursday, awarded Carson \u201cfor her bold and inventive oeuvre that, in playful dialogue with the classical tradition, has created new forms for contemporary literature.\u201d Carson is the 19th woman to win. <\/p>\n
Among Carson\u2019s myriad acclaimed works are her novel in verse \u201cAutobiography of Red\u201d and its sequel, \u201cRed Doc>\u201d; her seminal book of literary criticism, \u201cEros the Bittersweet\u201d; poetry collections such as \u201cGlass, Irony, and God\u201d \u2014 which contains \u201cThe Glass Essay\u201d \u2014 and the T.S. Eliot Prize-winning collection of narrative poetry \u201cThe Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos\u201d; her haunting accordion-fold elegy, \u201cNox\u201d; and her widely praised translation of Sappho\u2019s surviving fragments, \u201cIf Not, Winter.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIn 1981, she published her doctoral thesis in classics, and has throughout her entire career, combined poetry writing with translation work and teaching at various universities,\u201d said Anders Olsson, who serves as the chair of the Nobel Committee for Literature at the Swedish Academy, and presented the laureate. \u201cAlmost all her literary production has centered upon the intersection between the philologist\u2019s obsession with words and the poet\u2019s desire for new meaning.<\/p>\n
\u201cThroughout her entire authorship, Carson, with a light touch, explores the possibilities of writing, a process by which the literary sketch has become of particular value for her. In her collaborations with visual artists and choreographers, and with opera and theater directors, she has crossed over into various artistic fields, which has lent her writing a strongly performative aspect,\u201d Olsson continued. \u201cThis demonstrates the freedom with which she relates to literary expectations and rule systems, which in turn lies behind the outstanding importance her work since the 1990s has had for the international art and literature scene.\u201d<\/p>\n
Nobel committee member Steve Sem-Sandberg said Carson is \u201can author for our time,\u201d unique in her skill at connecting contemporary ways of living through antiquity. Sem-Sandberg marveled at Carson\u2019s use of the myths, characters, stories and fables from that time, and the way she puts them into a modern context. \u201cThe mixture between those two gives an enormous energy to her writing,\u201d he said. \u201cNobody writes like her, and nobody would even, I think, dare to do this in this way.\u201d<\/p>\n
Carson was sipping tea and eating crackers at her seaside home in Iceland \u2014 she also resides in Ann Arbor, Mich., where she teaches \u2014 after she got the big news. She said she was thinking of ways to give the 12 million Swedish kronor ($1.2 million) award away. \u201cWe have a friend who needs a house, and we always give a lot to Doctors Without Borders,\u201d she said<\/a>. She also planned to celebrate by taking a walk through the woods and turning off the phone. <\/p>\n Carson\u2019s initial reaction was surprise. \u201cWho would expect it? For heaven\u2019s sake!\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Anne Carson, the Canadian poet, essayist, professor of classics and translator, has won the 2026 Nobel Prize in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":640920,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[288832,6935,288834,288833,146,17273,85,46,425,288836,41978,57170,288835,288837,762,1891,1264,39748],"class_list":["post-640919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-carson","tag-character","tag-classicist-anne-carson","tag-contemporary-way","tag-entertainment","tag-glass","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-literature","tag-narrative-poetry","tag-nobel-prize","tag-poet","tag-poetry-collection","tag-swedish-academy","tag-time","tag-translation","tag-work","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=640919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640919\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/640920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=640919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=640919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=640919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}