Anne Carson won the Nobel Prize in Literature, specializing in connecting the ancient with modernity.

2026 was announced on Thursday. The Swedish Academy, which gave the Nobel Prize, has given this honor to Canadian writer Anne Carson this year.

“ It seems a little insane” Anne Carson was sweeping the kitchen floor at her home in Reykjaví k, Iceland, when the phone rang and she learnt that she had been awarded the 2026 Nobel Prize in Literature. In this conversation with the Nobel Prize just moments after the announcement, Carson shares her advice for aspiring writers and reveals that she has already started planning how to give away the prize money.

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Cleaning the kitchen came a call to win a Nobel

is the beginning of all work

'Eros the Bittersweet' is the most famous work.

Carson was born in Toronto in 1950. He obtained his PhD degree in 1981 by publishing a doctoral thesis titled 'Ode et amo ergo sum (I hate and love, therefore I am)'. According to the information released on the official website of the Nobel Prize, published in 1986 ' Eros the Bittersweet' is considered to be his best writing. In this, he has explained the essence of love and desire through ancient Greek literature. According to him, love can include both joy and suffering.

Many works on the mental illness of fathers

adept at connecting the ancient with modernity

Carson's specialty is to bring together writers of different eras in a single piece. 1999's ' 'Economy of the Unlost' In '2000' In 'Men in the Hour of Hours' In 'Men in the Hour' In 'Ancient Historian Thucydides' and the modern writer Virginia Woolf. In this way he tried to build a new bridge between the old and new literature.

lifelong literary experiments;

Throughout his writing career, Carson has consistently experimented with literary forms and explored the possibilities of writing. An example of this is 'Float', published in 2016, which is a collection of twenty-two chapbooks on different topics. Which can be read in any order. More recently, 'Wrong Norma' in 2024 has a mix of different types of writing, with a strong aspect of performance and Carson intertwining many artistic and academic fields.