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'Bold and inventive' Canadian poet Anne Carson wins Nobel Literature Prize
Canadian poet, essayist and translator Anne Carson has been awarded this year's Nobel Prize in Literature.
Carson, 76, is celebrated for works that often cross the boundaries between poetry, fiction and scholarship.
The Nobel Prize committee said they had selected her "for her bold and inventive oeuvre that, in playful dialogue with the classical tradition, has created new forms for contemporary literature".
The Nobel Prize is awarded for a lifetime's body of work and is regareded as the most prestigious award in global literature with the winner receiving 12 million Swedish kronor (£900,000, $1.2m).
In 2019, her performance piece Norma Jeane Baker of Troy drew a line between famous beauties from different historical periouds - Helen of Troy and Marilyn Monroe.
In 2021, she released The Trojan Women: A Comic, a graphic retelling of Euripides' ancient story; and her translation of Elektra by Sophocles was staged starring Brie Larson in London last year.
Ingrid Carlberg, permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy, said she had broken the news to Carson on the phone shortly before the public announcement.
"She had time to tell me was that she is, for the moment, in Iceland, where she is listening to the wind," Carlberg, said.
"She was taken by surprise but very happy. I could hear that in her voice."
Born in Toronto in 1950, Carson lives in Michigan and has also held Icelandic citizenship since 2022.