Adnkronos (Adnkronos) – The 2026 Nobel Prize in Literature has been awarded to Canadian poet and essayist Anne Carson. Among Canada's leading contemporary authors, the 76-year-old taught Greek literature and comparative literature at the University of Michigan. In 2000, she was awarded one of the most prestigious honors in English-language literature, the MacArthur Fellowship.
She is the author of numerous volumes, some of which have been translated into Italian.
'Autobiografia del rosso' (Bompiani, 2000) is a novel in verse that, drawing heavily on Greek myths, recounts the harrowing adventures of a modern monster, Geryon, a winged youth with fiery red skin. 'Anthropology of Water: Reflections on the Liquid Nature of Language' (Donzelli, 2010) is in some ways unclassifiable: it possesses the rhythm of poetry and the concreteness of prose, the logic of mathematics and the breadth of thought.
Essays, diaries, travel notes, stories: the diverse materials that make up the volume are first and foremost a reflection on the liquid nature of language, on its stagnation, flow, and dissolution.
Born in Toronto on June 21, 1950, Anne Carson studied classics at the University of St. Michael's College of the University of Toronto, where she dropped out at the end of both her first and second years, before graduating in 1974.
The following year, she earned her master's degree and her PhD in 1982. During her studies, she also spent a year at the University of St. Andrews, where she studied metrics and Greek philology. In 1986, Carson published her first book, Eros the Bittersweet, a revised version of her doctoral thesis. In it, the classicist explored the theme of eros in Greek lyric poetry, especially in Sappho, focusing primarily on the connection between love and solitude.
With a background in classical languages, comparative literature, and anthropology, Carson counts classical literature, as well as Simone Weil, Virginia Woolf, and Emily Brontë, among her artistic inspirations and models. She taught classics at McGill University, the University of Michigan, and Princeton University from 1980 to 1987. She has received several awards for her poetic work, including a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1998 and a MacArthur Fellows Program in 2000. Alongside her artistic and teaching activities, she has also translated several classics of Greek drama, including Electra, Agamemnon, Antigone, Orestes, and Iphigenia in Tauris.
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