Oct 9, 2026
Author Spotlight: Anne Carson — The Classicist Who Made the Nobel Prize New Again
A deep dive on Anne Carson — the Toronto-born poet, essayist, translator and classicist who won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Literature on 8 October; the scholar who spent her life dragging ancient Greek into the present, from Eros the Bittersweet and Autobiography of Red to The Beauty of the Husband and Nox; her five defining reflections on writing as discovery, on memory you cannot put down, on the morning of language, on translation as a ditch, and on the 'crazy' morning the Nobel finally came.