Canadian poet Anne Carson wins the Nobel Prize in Literature

The Swedish Academy honoured the Toronto-born poet, translator and classics scholar, 76, for “her bold and inventive oeuvre” in playful dialogue with the classical tradition.

Canadian winners of the Nobel Prize in Literature

• Saul Bellow, 1976
• Alice Munro, 2013
• Anne Carson, 2026

Carson is the third Canadian to win the prize, after Saul Bellow in 1976 and Alice Munro in 2013.

I'm just eating crackers and drinking tea.

— Anne Carson, from her home in Reykjavík

The prize, in Canadian dollars

1.7 million $

The prize is worth 12 million Swedish crowns, about $1.7 million, and Carson is the 19th woman to receive it.