Brief by Shorts91 Newsdesk / 11:51am on 08 Oct 2026,Thursday International
Canadian poet and writer Anne Carson has won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Literature for her distinctive body of work blending poetry, prose, dialogue and translation. The Swedish Academy praised Carson for her “bold and inventive oeuvre” and for creating new forms through dialogue with classical traditions. The award is worth 12 million Swedish crowns, around $1.2 million. Carson is known for her translations of classical Greek literature and works including Autobiography of Red and Norma Jeane Baker of Troy. She joins writers such as Alice Munro, Ernest Hemingway and Alexander Solzhenitsyn among Nobel Literature laureates. (PC: NDTV)
