Canadian poet receives Nobel Prize for Literature Anne Carson

[London Current Affairs] The Swedish Academy announced on the 8th that this year's Nobel Prize in Literature will be awarded to Canadian poet Anne Carson (76). He was praised for his "bold and inventive works that create new forms of contemporary literature through a playful dialogue with classical tradition." She is the second Canadian to win the award, after Alice Munro in 2013.

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Carson was born in Toronto in 1950. Studied classics at the University of Toronto and received a Ph.D. While teaching at universities in Canada and the United States, he wrote poetry, and his 1998 novel ``Red Autobiography,'' based on Greek mythology, was nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award, and he won the same award in 2024 for his collection of poems, ``Norma Without Interference.''

He uses a free form of expression that mixes poetry, novels, non-fiction, etc. His motifs include a variety of people, from ancient Greek poets to Katsushika Hokusai to French actress Catherine Deneuve. He is well versed in ancient Greek and also works as a translator. His works include the Greek tragedy ``Antigone'' and works by the poet Sappho.

He won the US MacArthur Genius Award in 2000, Canada's Griffin Poetry Prize in 2001, and the UK's T.S. Eliot Award in 2002.

The award ceremony will be held in Stockholm on December 10th, and a prize of 12 million Swedish kronor (approximately 190 million yen) will be presented.