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Canadian poet Anne Carson wins Nobel Prize in Literature
Carson, 76, is celebrated for works that often cross boundaries between poetry, fiction and scholarship.
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Anne Carson wins Nobel prize in literature 2026
World’s most prestigious prize for literature goes to Canadian poet known for genre-crossing works including Autobiography of Red The Nobel prize in literature has been awarded to the Canadian poet and essayist Anne Carson, the Swedish Academy has announced. The academy cited the author’s “bold and inventive oeuvre…
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Nobel prize in literature 2026 live: winner to be announced shortly
Bookies’ favourites include Canadian poet Anne Carson, Chinese experimental writer Can Xue and Japanese writer Haruki Murakami Possible contender: Anne Carson One of this year’s frontrunners is Anne Carson. Born in 1950 in Toronto, Canada, Carson is a poet, essayist, translator and was a professor of classics. Her…
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Women and the Piano album review – Tomes brings her poetic instincts to a rewarding compilation
Susan Tomes (Hyperion) From Marianne Martines – taught by the family lodger, Haydn, to Teresa Carreño who played for Lincoln, there’s names new and old in this fascinating and appealing collection This attractive compilation came out of Susan Tomes’ research for a book on female pianists across history. As she…
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Canadian Anne Carson wins 2026 Nobel Prize in Literature
The Swedish Academy praised the 76-year-old poet and essayist's work for being 'bold and inventive'.
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‘My poetry won me asylum’: Cecilia Vicuña on exile life in ‘sad’ Britain after Pinochet’s coup
Five decades after convincing judges she’d be killed if she returned to Chile, the artist is back with a politically charged retrospective in the country she grew to love Cecilia Vicuña was 24 when she first arrived in London. She had come from Santiago on a British Council scholarship to study at the Slade School of…
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‘I’m bringing together women who nourish me’: French film-maker Alice Diop on her debut installation
The Saint Omer director has gathered work by artists, writers, composers and poets for Geste de Consolation, set in the 60m-long central hall of the Palais d’Iena in Paris Alice Diop has just returned to France from California when we speak. It’s a Zoom meeting with a bad connection, and Diop leans close to the…
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The best recent poetry – review roundup
Have It by John Cooper Clarke; The Dodo Stories by Mary Mulholland; Red River Valley by Ian McMillan; Some Sacred Harbour by Roger Robinson; Otherwhere by Carolyn Forché Have It by John Cooper Clarke (Picador, £16.99) The latest collection from the original “people’s poet” displays his characteristic swagger…
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