Anne Carson won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Literature, with the Nobel Committee recognizing her for a body of work that engages playfully with classical literature while creating new forms for contemporary writing. Her books often combine poetry, essays, translation, criticism, and prose, and she frequently reworks figures and themes from ancient Greek literature. Books such as Eros the Bittersweet (1986), Autobiography of Red (1998), Nox (2010), and Wrong Norma (2024) illustrate her interest in mixing genres rather than writing within a single established form.
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