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Canadian Poet Anne Carson Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature
Carson received the prize for her inventive mix of classical scholarship, lyric poetry and avant-garde translation.
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Source context: For what is perhaps the world’s stuffiest, most self-important, and—sure—rarefied cultural award, the Nobel Prize in Literature is also often quite funny. That a lot of people take it far too seriously has been the premise of the tens of thousands of words we have written about i…
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Canadian poet Anne Carson wins Nobel Prize in Literature
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Anne Carson Is (Yet Another) Perfect Nobel Literature Laureate
For what is perhaps the world’s stuffiest, most self-important, and—sure—rarefied cultural award, the Nobel Prize in Literature is also often quite funny. That a lot of people take it far too seriously has been the premise of the tens of thousands of words we have written about it, stretching back more than a decade.Still, the best joke about the Nobel in…
The AtlanticCenter Left
Anne Carson’s Seductive Strangeness
The winner of this year’s Nobel Prize in Literature makes ancient texts feel tantalizingly new.
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2 publishers
The Wall Street JournalCenter
Canadian Poet Anne Carson Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature
Carson received the prize for her inventive mix of classical scholarship, lyric poetry and avant-garde translation.
BBC NewsCenter
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 and the Beauty of the Unsaid
Anne Carson, who won the Nobel Prize in Literature on Thursday, understands that sometimes the most powerful thing a poet can say is nothing at all, writes Spencer Klavan.