'Bold and inventive' Canadian poet Anne Carson wins Nobel Prize for Literature
The Canadian poet, essayist and translator Anne Carson has been awarded this year's Nobel Prize in Literature. The Nobel Prize committee said they had selected her "for her bold and inventive oeuvre that, in playful dialogue with the classical tradition, has created new forms for contemporary literature". Carson, aged 76, reacted by saying that the judges were "crazy" for honouring her. The Nobel Prize is awarded for a lifetim...
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