Canadian poet and essayist Anne Carson, 76, won the 2026 Nobel Prize in literature "for her bold and inventive oeuvre that, in playful dialogue with the classical tradition, has created new forms for contemporary literature," the Swedish Academy said. Her books include Autobiography of Red, a novel in verse built from fragments of a Greek myth, and The Beauty of the Husband, a narrative poem told in 29 tangos. She has also taught translation and the classics.