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                    "The Nobel prize in literature has been awarded to the Canadian poet and essayist Anne Carson, the Swedish Academy has announced.The academy cited the author\u2019s \u201cbold and inventive oeuvre that, in playful dialogue with the classical tradition, has created new forms for contemporary literature\u201d.The Nobel prize, regarded as the most prestigious award in global literature, is awarded for a lifetime body of work. The winner receives 12m Swedish kronor (\u00a3900,000).Ingrid Carlberg, the permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy, said she had told Carson of the award on the phone shortly before the news broke. \u201cShe had time to tell me that she is, for the moment, in Iceland, where she is listening to the wind,\u201d Carlberg said. \u201cShe was taken by surprise but very happy. I could hear that in her voice.\u201dBooks by Anne Carson on display at a Waterstones bookshop in London. Photograph: Hannah McKay/ReutersBorn in Toronto in 1950, Carson is known for work that moves freely between poetry, prose and translation, drawing heavily on the literature and mythology of the ancient Greek world. She has been a professor of classics at various institutions including Princeton, New York University and McGill University in Montreal. She is the 19th woman to win, out of 123 literature laureates.Carson\u2019s first book, Eros the Bittersweet, was published in 1986 and combined literary criticism with an exploration of desire and the ancient Greek tradition.Her best-known work is Autobiography of Red, a 1998 novel in verse inspired by the fragments of the ancient Greek poet Stesichorus. It reimagines the myth of Geryon, the red-winged monster killed by Herakles, as the story of a modern teenage boy navigating heartbreak and desire.In 2001, she became the first woman to win the TS Eliot prize, for her collection The Beauty of the Husband. She has also been awarded Guggenheim and MacArthur fellowships.The Canadian prime minister, Mark Carney, congratulated the poet on X after the announcement. \u201cWith wit, imagination, and a style entirely her own, Canadian poet Anne Carson has reimagined the classics. She has brought ancient stories to new audiences and transformed the way we think about literature,\u201d he said, adding that it was a \u201cproud moment for Canada\u201d.David Leonard, the executive director of the Writers\u2019 Trust of Canada, said: \u201cAnne is such a brilliant writer. Her work is broad, but also extremely smart.\u201d Calling Carson\u2019s work \u201cintoxicating\u201d, he said her four-decade career had resulted in a peerless collection of poems and essays. \u201cThey\u2019re beautiful, they\u2019re smart, they\u2019re true and they are humane. It\u2019s exactly what we need in our writing.\u201dCarson\u2019s work has attracted praise from fellow writers including Susan Sontag, who once said: \u201cShe is one of the few writers writing in English that I would read anything she wrote. If there\u2019s a magazine that has something of hers in it, I buy it automatically.\u201dIngrid Carlberg announcing Anne Carson as the recipient of the 2026 Nobel prize in literature in Stockholm on Thursday. Photograph: Christine Olsson/EPAAnders Olsson, the chair of the Swedish Academy\u2019s Nobel Committee for Literature, praised Carson for work that had \u201cbroken away from lyrical poetry bound to the narrative self and inspired new forms of contemporary literature\u201d. He said: \u201cThis method of writing leads to playful and ironic works that move not only between classical and modern poetry but also between different genres and artforms.\u201dCarson\u2019s books have ranged widely in form. Men in the Off Hours combined verse essays, poems, epitaphs and prose about artists and historical figures, and won the inaugural Griffin poetry prize in 2001. Decreation, another eclectic work, brought together poetry, essays and an opera.Nox, published in 2010, is particularly characteristic of Carson\u2019s avant-garde approach to literature \u2013 the book takes the form of an accordion-fold box containing a reproduction of a notebook Carson made after the death of her brother. Her later works include Red Doc> and Float.In a Guardian review of Red Doc>, Sarah Crown wrote: \u201cTo engage so fluidly, so originally and compellingly, with a story first told more than 3,000 years ago, is astonishing: her ambition is one thing; the fact that it is so completely achieved is, frankly, something else.\u201dMuch of Carson\u2019s work has emerged from her fascination with language itself. The Swedish Academy noted: \u201cAlmost all her literary production has centred upon the intersection between the philologist\u2019s obsession with words and the poet\u2019s desire for new meaning,\u201d adding that Carson had identified the etymology of words as \u201cthe starting point for all her work\u201d.Asked why she continually moved between forms, Carson said in an interview: \u201cBoredom, I guess. There is a restlessness. There are a lot of forms to try.\u201dShe has acknowledged the difficulties that come with her experimental style. \u201c[My work] does fall apart a lot,\u201d she said in a 2018 interview. \u201cIt gets just too weird for anyone to care about reading, or else it gets diluted into a sort of parody of itself.\u201dIra Wells, the president of PEN Canada, said Carson\u2019s win felt \u201cparticularly significant at a moment in which Canada and Europe are strengthening cultural ties amidst broader global disruption\u201d. He added: \u201cOn an aesthetic level, Carson\u2019s verse vibrates on profound human frequencies, at a moment in which more and more language is formulated by machines.\u201dCarson has generally kept her personal life out of interviews. However, in an August 2024 article for the London Review of Books, she disclosed that she had been diagnosed with Parkinson\u2019s disease.The Nobel prize in literature has been awarded on 118 previous occasions since 1901. Recent laureates include Annie Ernaux, Bob Dylan, Abdulrazak Gurnah, Louise Gl\u00fcck, Peter Handke and Olga Tokarczuk. Last year\u2019s recipient was the Hungarian author L\u00e1szl\u00f3 Krasznahorkai, known for his dystopic and avant-garde writing.Carson, 76, will formally receive the medal and diploma in a ceremony in Stockholm in December.\n \n  To browse works by Anne Carson, visit guardianbookshop.com. Delivery charges may apply."
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