Canadian poet Anne Carson wins Nobel Prize in Literature

Canadian poet Anne Carson has been awarded this year's Nobel Prize in Literature. At 76, Carson is recognized for work that often crosses the boundaries between poetry, fabrication and scholarship. The Nobel Prize committee selected her "for her bold and inventive oeuvre that, successful playful dialog with the classical tradition, has created caller forms for modern literature". Ingrid Carlberg, imperishable caput of the Swedish Academy, said she had broken the news to Carson by telephone shortly before the public announcement. "She had clip to archer maine was that she is, for the moment, successful Iceland, wherever she is listening to the wind," Carlberg, said. "She was taken by astonishment but precise happy. I could perceive that successful her voice." Carson has also translated ancient Greek literature and served as a professor of classics for more than three decades. The Nobel Prize is awarded for a lifetime's assemblage of enactment and is regareded arsenic the astir prestigious grant successful planetary lit with the victor receiving 12 cardinal Swedish kronor (£900,000, $1.2m). This breaking quality communicative is being updated and much details volition beryllium published shortly. Please refresh the leafage for the fullest version. Read the full story at BBC News →