Canada’s Anne Carson wins 2026 Nobel Prize in Literature

The winner of this year’s Nobel Prize in Literature is Canadian poet and essayist Anne Carson. The 76-year-old Carson won “for her bold and inventive oeuvre that, in playful dialogue with the classical tradition, has created new forms for contemporary literature”. The announcement was made in Sweden’s capital Stockholm on Thursday. Last year, the Swedish Academy picked Hungarian writer Laszlo Krasznahorkai. The Literature Prize is the fourth award announced each year, following the Nobel Prizes...