The Nobel Prize Committee explained that Ann Carson received the prize "for her bold and innovative work that, through a playful dialogue with the classical tradition, created new forms for contemporary literature."
Canadian poet, essayist and translator Ann Carson is this year's winner Nobel Prizes for Literature.
Carson (76) is known for works that often blur the boundaries between poetry, prose and scientific research.
The Nobel Prize Committee announced that she was chosen "because of her bold and innovative body of work which, through a playful dialogue with the classical tradition, created new forms for contemporary literature."
Carson was also involved in the translation of ancient Greek literature, and for more than 30 years she worked as a professor of classical sciences.
She is an expert in classical studies and a translator best known for works that combine different genres, such as the book "Autobiography of Red", a queer coming-of-age story that reinterprets a poem by the ancient Greek poet Stesichores.
Born in Toronto in 1950, Carson holds a doctorate in classical sciences and has taught at numerous universities throughout her decades-long career.
Among her works are "Plainwater", "Wrong Norma" and "The Beauty of the Husband", for which she won the TS Eliot Award in 2001, as the first woman to do so.
The Nobel Prize is awarded for a lifetime's work and is considered the most prestigious award in world literature, and the winner receives a monetary amount of 12 million Swedish kronor, or 1,2 million dollars.
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