{
  "id": 12855533,
  "title": "Anne Carson wins Nobel Literature prize",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/08/anne-carson-wins-nobel-literature-prize",
  "topic": "culture",
  "section": "Culture",
  "published": "2026-10-08T11:12:01.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Gulf News",
    "slug": "gulf-news",
    "url": "https://gulfnews.com/world/americas/anne-carson-wins-nobel-literature-prize-1.500703190"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Canadian poet and essayist Anne Carson has been awarded the prestigious Nobel Prize in Literature for her groundbreaking and inventive body of work. In a playful dialogue with the classical tradition, Carson has developed new forms for contemporary literature, drawing on themes and stories from ancient Greek and Roman literature. Her books include \"Eros the Bittersweet,\" a collection of poems exploring the pleasure and pain of desire in ancient Greek literature, and \"Autobiography of Red,\" a verse novel. Carson was notified of her win while listening to the wind in Iceland. The Swedish Academy's permanent secretary, Ingrid Carlberg, announced the prize in Stockholm. Last year, Hungarian writer László Krasznahorkai also won the Nobel Prize in Literature for his surreal and anarchic novels that uphold the power of art amidst apocalyptic terror.",
  "summary": "Canada's Anne Carson has won the Nobel Literature prize for 2026. The Nobel Academy said the prize was awarded to the Canadian author “for her bold and inventive oeuvre that, in playful dialogue with the classical tradition, has created new forms for contemporary literature.”",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}