Canadian Poet Anne Carson Is Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature
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The writer joins a list of laureates that includes Toni Morrison, Samuel Beckett and Bob Dylan.
Listen · 7:56 min Share full article 195 Anne Carson in New York in 2008. Credit... Rob Bennett for The New York Times By Alex Marshall
Alex Marshall has reported on the Nobel Prize in Literature since 2019. This year, he prepared for 46 potential winners. Carson was thankfully among them.
She is the third Canadian-born writer to receive the honor, after Alice Munro in 2013 and Saul Bellow in 1976.
Upon learning of the prize, Carson said “Yikes,” according to her agent, Nicole Aragi.
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Carson, 76, is best known for her translations of ancient Greek texts and for remixing them in a modern, playful voice. “Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse,” from 1998, turned a fragment of Greek poetry into a tale of a moody teenager’s destructive love affair, and “ Red Doc> ,” from 2013, a sequel of sorts to “Autobiography of Red,” concerned a road trip.
“Many toil in the interstices of genre,” the poet Daisy Fried wrote in a 2013 review of “Red Doc>” for The New York Times . “Carson’s palatable, popular, sophisticated and who-cares approach may have done the most and best work in the last two decades to stop people worrying so much about what’s poetry and what’s not.”
Sam Anderson, in a 2013 profile of Carson for The New York Times Magazine, said that the author’s work “can seduce even people who don’t like poetry.”
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