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A Nobel winner's novel in verse

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Ware, M. L. (2026, October 9). A Nobel winner's novel in verse. Semafor. https://www.semafor.com/article/10/09/2026/a-nobel-winners-novel-in-verse

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Semafor · collected 2026-10-09 · by Mary Lawrence Ware

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Anne Carson, a Canadian writer who won the 2026 Nobel Prize for Literature, published "Autobiography of Red," a novel in verse that retells the ancient Greek myth of Hercules and Geryon as a modern queer love story. Ruth Padel's review in The New York Times praises Carson’s poetic style, describing it as sensuous, funny, poignant, musical, and tender.
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Anne Carson, a Canadian writer who won the 2026 Nobel Prize for Literature, published *Autobiography of Red* in 1998, which retells the ancient Greek myth of Hercules and Geryon as a modern-day queer love story through 47 long-lined poems. British poet Ruth Padel praised Carson’s work in a review for the New York Times, describing her language as “sensuous and funny, poignant, musical and tender, brilliantly lighted.” The novel is noted for its cinematic detail and compelling readability.

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Mary Lawrence Ware
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Through “47 compulsively readable long-lined poems of intense cinematic detail,” the Canadian writer — and winner of the 2026 Nobel Prize for Literature — retells the ancient Greek myth of Hercules and Geryon as a modern day queer love story, the British poet Ruth Padel wrote in a New York Times review of Carson’s 1998 novel.
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🔮 “Carson writes in language any poet would kill for: sensuous and funny, poignant, musical and tender, brilliantly lighted.”
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Through “47 compulsively readable long-lined poems of intense cinematic detail,” the Canadian writer — and winner of the 2026 Nobel Prize for Literature — retells the ancient Greek myth of Hercules and Geryon as a modern day queer love story, the British poet Ruth Padel wrote in a New York Times review of Carson’s 1998 novel. asserted
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“Carson writes in language any poet would kill for: sensuous and funny, poignant, musical and tender, brilliantly lighted.” asserted
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