00:00Anne Carson, the Canadian poet and writer, has just become the nineteenth woman
00:05in receiving the Nobel Prize in Literature. According to the Swedish Academy, the award was
00:10awarded for his Bold and Ingenious work, which in a playful dialogue with classical tradition
00:15has created new forms for contemporary literature.
00:19The writer was born in Toronto, Canada, in 1950. Her work is characterized by mixing forms
00:25and genres, also marked by her career as a professor of classical culture, with
00:29Training in classical languages, comparative literature, anthropology, and history. Some
00:35Among his best-known works are Eres, The Bittersweet, Autobiography of Red, A Novel in Verse, Economy
00:41of the Unlost and Wrong Norma. The Swedish Academy highlighted that throughout his career,
00:46Carson has combined writing poetry with translation and teaching in various
00:51universities. Almost all of his literary output has focused on the intersection between the
00:56the philologist's obsession with words and the poet's desire to find new meanings,
01:01The institution noted. Steve Sem Sandberg, a member of the Academy, pointed out that many
01:06Readers might be surprised by the decision, but Carson connects our customs
01:11contemporary and our ways of life have always been influenced by antiquity.
01:15She also highlighted that the author is fluent in ancient Latin and Greek and uses myths,
01:21the characters, stories, and fables of that era to bring them into a context
01:26Modern. Nobody writes like her, he said.
01:29The writer has had a long-standing fascination with the classical world. In an interview for
01:34Brick commented that he imagined himself as a reborn Oscar Wilde and the entire intellectual world
01:39of his time, which included a lot of Latin and Greek. He was a kind of myth to me. I thought,
01:44If I learn Greek, I might become even more like Oscar Wilde. He seemed to me to be the following
01:49logical step.
01:50Anne Carson completed her undergraduate, master's, and doctoral studies at the University of Toronto.
01:54and spent time studying Greek textual criticism at the University of St. Andrews.
01:59Based on her study of Greek, the writer translated texts from ancient Greece such as poems
02:04by Sappho and works such as Antigone and Electra by Sophocles. He affirmed that his taste for the classics
02:10It developed in part due to the content of the works. These are some of the literary pieces.
02:14more profound than any that have ever been written, but I also love the mental activity that
02:19It involves immersing myself in a translation. It's like solving an endless crossword puzzle.
02:23But with a valuable product. As every year, the Swedish Academy will present the award.
02:28The next December 10th in Stockholm, where the writer is expected to give a speech.
