Anne Carson Wins 2026 Nobel Prize in Literature

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Nobel Laureate Anne Carson, with one of my all-time favorite opening lines and one of my all-time favorite closing lines.

Congratulations to Anne Carson, Canadian poet, essayist and translator who won the Nobel Prize in literature this morning. Carson also holds Icelandic citizenship. In an age of growing AI, it's ever more important to recognize and honor the world's great writers and poets. #NobelPrize

flat out sobbing about anne carson. in fall 1992 my college girlfriend, also a poet, came running into my room with a copy of yale review. “you’ve got to see this,” she half yelled before shoving it at me. it was “short talks.” then we found eros the bittersweet. and then. maybe the gods do exist.

The Nobel Academy in their announcement said when Anne Carson was reached by phone she was very taken by surprise. They spoke with her very briefly. "All she had time to tell me was that she is for the moment in Iceland 'listening to the wind.'"

Via Nobel Prize: "New Nobel Prize laureate in literature Anne Carson stands surprised in her kitchen in Reykjavík, Iceland."

"The actions of life are not so many. To go in, to go, to go in secret, to cross the bridge of sighs" A jubilant #todayspoem! Short Talk on Defloration by #nobelprize winner Anne Carson from Short Talks (1992 Brick Books)

#UofT alumna Anne Carson has won the 2026 #NobelPrize in Literature for “her bold and inventive oeuvre that, in playful dialogue with the classical tradition, has created new forms for contemporary literature." #UofTAlumni 🏆 uoft.me/np26

PEN America congratulates Anne Carson on winning the 2026 Nobel Prize in Literature. A poet, a translator, an essayist and classicist — for four decades, Carson’s groundbreaking work has defied convention, made us question the nature of language, and brought the classical world into the present.

Anne Carson, who won the Nobel Prize for Literature today, was denied tenure by Princeton University in 1987.

I’m unfamiliar with Anne Carson but based solely on this reaction it seems like they made the right choice.

www.nobelprize.org/prizes/liter... ancestor Toni Morrison awarded the @nobelprize.org in Literature OTD IN 1993. #ToniMorrison #NobelPrize

In honour of Anne Carson winning the Nobel in Lit, the Globe and Mail reprinted an interview with her from 2000. "In three different rooms, she has three desks with different projects on each." THREE ROOMS OF HER OWN WITH THREE DESKS AND THREE PROJECTS, THE DAMN DREAM

Often I feel disappointed by the Nobel, but today a wonderful human won. Here’s a blast from the past: Anne Carson performing her drone poem, Lecture on the History of Skywriting, with our client Faisal bin Ali Jaber, an engineer whose innocent nephew was killed in a strike. whitney.org/media/98

Just in! The 2026 Nobel Prize in Literature is awarded to the Canadian author Anne Carson. 📷 Nobel Prize