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Canadian poet, essayist, and classical scholar Anne Carson has been awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for 2020. The Swedish Academy announced her name on Thursday (October 8) at 5:00 PM Bangladesh time.

The Nobel Committee stated that she was awarded this year’s prize for her bold and innovative literary work, which creates new forms for contemporary literature through a playful dialogue with classical tradition.

Born in Toronto, Canada, in 1950, Anne Carson is recognized as one of the most exceptional writers in contemporary English literature. She has long been acclaimed for breaking the boundaries of conventional literary genres by blending poetry, essays, novels, translation, and classical Greek literature. She completed her bachelor’s, master’s, and PhD degrees in Classics at the University of Toronto and later taught at various universities in Canada and the United States.

Carson has previously received numerous awards and honors, including the MacArthur Fellowship, the Guggenheim Fellowship, the Griffin Poetry Prize, and the T.S. Eliot Prize.

The prize money for the Nobel Prize this year is 12 million Swedish kronor, equivalent to approximately 1.2 million US dollars. The awards will be formally presented to the winners in Stockholm on December 10, the anniversary of Alfred Nobel’s death.