{"id":12001,"date":"2026-10-08T17:31:44","date_gmt":"2026-10-08T16:31:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/?p=12001"},"modified":"2026-10-08T19:07:03","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T18:07:03","slug":"anne-carson-nobel-prize-for-literature-2026-winner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/anne-carson-nobel-prize-for-literature-2026-winner\/","title":{"rendered":"Anne Carson, Nobel Prize for Literature 2026 winner"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_9179\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9179\" style=\"width: 945px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-9179 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Anne-Carson-1000-x-560.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"945\" height=\"530\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Anne-Carson-1000-x-560.jpg 945w, https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Anne-Carson-1000-x-560-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Anne-Carson-1000-x-560-768x431.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 945px) 100vw, 945px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9179\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Anne Carson. Author photo \u00a9 Peter Smith<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Warmest congratulations to Anne Carson, who has been awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for 2026 \u2018for her bold and inventive oeuvre that, in playful dialogue with the classical tradition, has created new forms for contemporary literature\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>A boundary-breaking and creative writer and thinker, Anne Carson&#8217;s other awards and honours include the Lannan Award, the Pushcart Prize, the Griffin Trust Award for Excellence in Poetry, a Guggenheim fellowship, and the MacArthur \u2018Genius\u2019 Award. She has been shortlisted four times for the T. S. Eliot Prize and was the <a href=\"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/prize-year\/the-t-s-eliot-prize-2001\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>winner in 2000 with <em>The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos<\/em><\/strong><\/a> (Cape Poetry), the first woman to win the Prize. She wrote amusingly about her win for the <a href=\"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/anne-carson-t-s-eliot-prize-2001-the-first-woman-to-win\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>T. S. Eliot Prize 30th anniversary celebrations<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nobelprize.org\/prizes\/lists\/all-nobel-prizes-in-literature\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>The Nobel Prize in Literature<\/strong><\/a> is awarded annually by The Swedish Academy to an author who has, in the words of Alfred Nobel, \u2018in the field of literature, produced the most outstanding work in an idealistic direction\u2019. Recipients include T. S. Eliot, W. B. Yeats, Pablo Neruda, Czes\u0142aw Mi\u0142osz, Derek Walcott, Seamus Heaney and Louise Gl\u00fcck.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Warmest congratulations to Anne Carson, who has been awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for 2026 \u2018for her bold and inventive oeuvre that, in playful dialogue with the classical tradition, has created new forms for contemporary literature\u2019. A boundary-breaking and creative writer and thinker, Anne Carson&#8217;s other awards and honours include the Lannan Award, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12001"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12001\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12007,"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12001\/revisions\/12007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}