India, Oct. 8 -- Canadian writer Anne Carson, who won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Literature on Thursday, has a little-known India connection through her elder brother Michael Carson, who spent years travelling across India and Europe after leaving Canada. Michael's life and mysterious death became the subject of Anne's 2010 memoir 'Nox', a book-length elegy that brought together memories, photographs, letters, poems and other memorabilia related to her brother.

According to a report by The Irish Times, Michael left Canada in 1979 to escape being arrested for dealing drugs. He spent more than two decades moving between India and Europe under false passports. He eventually settled in Copenhagen, where he died in 2000 at the age of 55.

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