The Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded on Oct. 8 to Canadian poet Anne Carson, shown here in May, 2015, in Sweden.PONTUS LUNDAHL/AFP/Getty Images
Canada’s Anne Carson has won the Nobel Prize in Literature, becoming the third Canadian to be awarded the prize.
The 76-year-old modernist poet, translator, classics scholar and Member of the Order of Canada was recognized for “her bold and inventive oeuvre that, in playful dialogue with the classical tradition, has created new forms for contemporary literature.”
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Among her best-known works is 1998’s Autobiography of Red, both a novel and a poem, an unconventional re-creation of an ancient Greek myth and a wholly original coming-of-age story set in the present.
In addition to being a literary giant, Anne Carson is Canadian through and through, having grown up in several small towns, where she undoubtedly made an impact on friends and neighbours.
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