Anne Carson Nobel: Literature Is Changing Shape

When Anne Carson learned that she had won the Nobel Prize in Literature, she was not in a library surrounded by old books or sitting at a desk. She was in Iceland, listening to the wind. The 76-year-old writer, caught completely off guard by the call from the Swedish Academy, summed up the moment with little ceremony: “I think they’re all crazy.” Perhaps it is a fitting way to begin talking about Carson. The Canadian writer has just received the world’s highest literary...

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