Canada’s Anne Carson wins Nobel literature prize

The Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded on Thursday to Canadian poet Anne Carson, an essayist and classicist who brings a modern twist to mysticism and antiquity in her writings about love, desire and despair.
The 76-year-old — who announced in 2024 that she has Parkinson’s disease — was honoured “for her bold and inventive oeuvre that, in playful dialogue with the classical tradition, has created new forms for contemporary literature,” the Swedish Academy said.
The permanent secretary of the Academy, Ingrid Carlberg, said she had briefly spoken to Carson.
“We didn’t have so much time to speak. All she had time to tell me was that she is for the moment in Iceland, where she’s list...