This yearโs #NobelPrize laureate Anne Carson was born in 1950 in Toronto, Canada. In 1981, she published her doctoral thesis in Classics entitled โOdi et Amo Ergo Sumโ, and has, throughout her entire career, combined poetry writing with translation work and teaching at various universities.
Almost all her literary production has centred upon the intersection between the philologistโs obsession with words and the poetโs desire for new meaning. She has herself identified the etymology of words as the starting point for all her work.
BREAKING NEWS
The 2026 #NobelPrize in Literature is awarded to the Canadian author Anne Carson, โfor her bold and inventive oeuvre that, in playful dialogue with the classical tradition, has created new forms for contemporary literature.โ