00:01Canadian poet, essayist and translator Anne Carson has been awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for 2026 for her bold
00:10and inventive œuvre that, in playful dialogue with the classical tradition, has created new forms for contemporary literature.
00:18It is through such often unexpected literary constellations that Carson has broken away from lyrical poetry bound to the narrative
00:29self and inspired new forms of contemporary literature.
00:35This method of writing leads to playful and ironic works that move not only between classical and modern poetry, but
00:45also between different genres and art forms.
00:48Among Carson's best-known works are her 1986 debut, Eros the Bittersweet, a look at the pleasure and pain of
00:57desire in ancient Greek literature, her 1998 work often heralded as her greatest autobiography of read, a novel in verse,
01:06a queer coming-of-age story that reworks a Greek poem about Heracles.
01:11By winning the Nobel Prize, Carson becomes only the 19th woman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature.
01:18By winning the Nobel Prize in Literature and in a
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