{"id":460291,"date":"2026-10-08T17:12:18","date_gmt":"2026-10-08T17:12:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/460291\/"},"modified":"2026-10-08T17:12:18","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T17:12:18","slug":"2026-nobel-prize-winner-anne-carsons-surprising-dallas-connection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/460291\/","title":{"rendered":"2026 Nobel Prize winner Anne Carson’s surprising Dallas connection"},"content":{"rendered":"

Anne Carson, the Canadian essayist, poet and translator who just won the 2026 Nobel Prize in literature, has a surprising Dallas<\/a> connection.<\/p>\n

Her first book of criticism,\u00a0Eros the Bittersweet, which was initially released in 1986, is now published by\u00a0the Dalkey Archive Press<\/a>, which is owned by local independent publisher Deep Vellum<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“We at Deep Vellum and Dalkey Archive Press are thrilled to congratulate Anne on this enormous achievement, a much-deserved capstone to one of the most daring and distinguished careers in contemporary letters,” the publisher said in a Thursday news release<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The nonfiction work is a look at the pleasure and pain of desire in ancient Greek literature and develops “many of the ideas that would define her later career,” according to the publisher.<\/p>\n

The Nobel committee honored Carson \u201cfor her bold and inventive oeuvre that, in playful dialogue with the classical tradition, has created new forms for contemporary literature,\u201d according to the Thursday announcement.<\/p>\n

The Toronto-born Carson, 76, draws on themes from classical Greek and Roman literature, modern influences and personal experience for genre-blending works that have ranged from translations of ancient Greek poets to collaborations with dancers and musicians, including Laurie Anderson and Lou Reed. Her books include the verse novel Autobiography of Red, as well as Men in the Off Hours, a collection of poetry and prose that won Canada\u2019s Griffin Prize for poetry in 2001, and Norma Jeane Baker of Troy, which compares Marilyn Monroe and Helen of Troy.<\/p>\n

\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,\u201d said Anders Olsson, chair of the Nobel Literature Committee.<\/p>\n

The Associated Press contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Anne Carson, the Canadian essayist, poet and translator who just won the 2026 Nobel Prize in literature, has…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":460292,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1638,102,104,103,143592,91555,87998,95591],"class_list":["post-460291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-brief","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news","tag-dwf-celebrities","tag-tp-celebrities","tag-tp-dallas","tag-tp-deep-ellum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=460291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460291\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/460292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=460291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=460291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=460291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}