India, Oct. 8 -- Canadian poet, essayist and translator Anne Carson has been awarded the 2026 Nobel Prize in Literature, the Swedish Academy announced.

In an X post shared by The Nobel Prize, Carson appeared visibly surprised while reacting to the news from her kitchen in Reykjavik, Iceland, where she was busy on a phone call.

Carson's work defies easy categorisation, combining poetry, fiction, essays, classical scholarship, translation and drama.

Her writing is known for bringing classical literature into conversation with contemporary life, often moving between scholarship, poetry and personal reflection.

Carson gained widespread recognition with Autobiography of Red (1998), a genre-defying work that reimagines the Greek mythologica...