Anne Carson has won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Literature.
Today, the Swedish Academy awarded the 2026 Nobel Prize in Literature to Canadian author Anne Carson, for “her bold and inventive oeuvre that in playful dialogue with the classical tradition has created new forms for contemporary literature. ” The Academy’s permanent secretary called Carson with the news; she was in Iceland, where she was “listening to the wind. Knopf, 2013); The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos (Alfred A.
