STOCKHOLM, Oct 8 — The Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded today to Canadian poet Anne Carson, an essayist and classicist who brings a modern twist to mysticism and antiquity in her writings about love, desire and despair.
The 76-year-old was honoured “for her bold and inventive oeuvre that, in playful dialogue with the classical tradition, has created new forms for contemporary literature,” the Swedish Academy said.
The permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy, Ingrid Carlberg, said she had briefly spoken to Carson.
“We didn’t have so much time to speak. All she had time to tell me was that she is for the moment in Iceland, where she’s listening to the wind.”
“She was taken by surprise, but very happy. I could hear that in her voice.”
