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The Nobel prize in literature has been awarded to the Canadian poet and essayist Anne Carson, the Swedish Academy has announced.
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Academy → award → poet
The academy cited the author’s “bold and inventive oeuvre that, in playful dialogue with the classical tradition, has created new forms for contemporary literature”.
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Born in 1950 in Toronto, Carson is known for work that moves freely between poetry, prose and translation, drawing heavily on the literature and mythology of the ancient Greek world.
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Carson’s first book, Eros the Bittersweet, was published in 1986, and combined literary criticism with an exploration of desire and the ancient Greek tradition.
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Her best-known work is Autobiography of Red, a 1998 novel in verse inspired by the fragments of the ancient Greek poet Stesichorus.
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It reimagines the myth of Geryon, the red-winged monster killed by Herakles, as the story of a modern teenage boy navigating heartbreak and desire.
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In 2001, she became the first woman to win the TS Eliot prize for her collection The Beauty of the Husband.
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She has also been awarded Guggenheim and MacArthur fellowships.
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Her work has attracted praise from fellow writers, including Susan Sontag, who once said: “She is one of the few writers writing in English that I would read anything she wrote.
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If there’s a magazine that has something of hers in it, I buy it automatically.”
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Carson’s books have ranged widely in form.
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Men in the Off Hours combined verse essays, poems, epitaphs and prose about artists and historical figures, and won the inaugural Griffin poetry prize in 2001.
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Decreation, another eclectic work, brought together poetry, essays and an opera.
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Nox, published in 2010, is particularly characteristic of Carson’s avante-garde approach to literature – the book takes the form of an accordion-fold box containing a reproduction of a notebook Carson made after the death of her brother.
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Her later works include Red Doc> and Float.
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The Nobel prize in literature has been awarded on 118 previous occasions since 1901.
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Recent laureates include Annie Ernaux, Bob Dylan, Abdulrazak Gurnah, Louise Glück, Peter Handke and Olga Tokarczuk.
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Last year’s recipient was the Hungarian author László Krasznahorkai, known for his dystopic and avant-garde writing.
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Carson, 76, will formally receive the medal and diploma in a ceremony in Stockholm in December.
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