Nobel Prize in Literature: Anne Carson from Canada receives the Nobel Prize in Literature

This year's Nobel Prize for Literature goes to the Canadian poet and author Anne Carson. This was announced by the Swedish Academy in Stockholm. The Canadian was honored "for her bold and imaginative work," which created new forms for contemporary literature in a "playful dialogue with the classical tradition," it said. Last year, the Hungarian László Krasznahorkai was awarded the prestigious prize.

Prize winners in the categories of physiology or medicine, physics and chemistry have already been announced since Monday. There are also two Germans: Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel received the medicine prize together with the American Karl Deisseroth for their discoveries in the field of optogenetics. The Belgian-American researcher Francis Halzen was honored with the Nobel Prize in Physics. The Nobel Prize in Chemistry went to the French Henri Kagan and the Japanese Kenso Soai for crucial fundamentals, including the development of medicines.