India, Oct. 8 -- Canadian poet and essayist Anne Carson won the Nobel Prize in Literature on Thursday. The Swedish Academy gave her the award for her "bold and inventive" body of work. The academy said Carson creates new forms of literature by bringing classical traditions into modern writing.

Carson is the third Canadian-born writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. Before her, Alice Munro won in 2013 and Saul Bellow won in 1976.

Carson is a poet, essayist, translator and scholar of ancient Greek literature. She is known for taking stories and ideas from ancient Greek works and presenting them in a modern and often playful way, according to The New York Times. Her writing mixes poetry, essays, translations, ancient literature and s...