Anne Carson's writing has never fit neatly into one category. She is a poet, translator, classicist and essayist, and her work can shift from ancient Greek literature to modern love, loss and memory without warning. This very unusual body of work has earned her the 2026 Nobel Prize in Literature. The Swedish Academy honored the Canadian writer “for her bold and inventive oeuvre that, in playful dialogue with the classical tradition, has created new forms for contemporary literature.” Carson, 76, is the third Canadian writer to win the literature prize, following Alice Munro in 2013 and Saul Bellow in 1976.
