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Anne Carson Wins 2026 Nobel Prize in Literature
The Swedish Academy has awarded the 2026 Nobel Prize in Literature to Canadian poet and essayist Anne Carson, praising a body of work that moves between poetry, prose, and translation and reworks classical tradition into new forms. Carson, 76, is known for <em>Autobiography of Red</em> and <em>Eros the Bittersweet</em>, and was the first woman to win the T.S. Eliot Prize.