Wrong Norma: Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2026

Anne Carson

Feb 2024 · Random House

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**Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2026**

Wrong Norma is Anne Carson's first book of original material in eight years

'Effortlessly readable and...fun' DAILY TELEGRAPH
'I'm a big fan...' TEJU COLE

Anne Carson is probably our most celebrated living poet, winner of countless awards and the 2026 Nobel Prize in Literature. Famously reticent, asking that her books be published without cover copy, she has agreed to say this:

Wrong Norma is a collection of writings about different things, like Joseph Conrad, Guantanamo, Flaubert, snow, poverty, Roget's Thesaurus, my Dad, Saturday night, Sokrates, writing sonnets, forensics, encounters with lovers, the word "idea", the feet of Jesus, and Russian thugs. The pieces are not linked. That's why I've called them "wrong".

NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER FOR POETRY

**Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2026** Wrong Norma is Anne Carson's first book of original material in eight years 'Effortlessly readable and...fun' DAILY TELEGRAPH 'I'm a big fan...' TEJU COLE Anne Carson is probably our most celebrated living poet, winner of countless awards and the 2...

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Anne Carson was born in Canada and has been a professor of Classics for over thirty years. Her awards and honours include the T. S. Eliot Prize, a Lannan Award, the Pushcart Prize, the Griffin Prize, on two occasions, fellowships from the Guggenheim and MacArthur Foundations, and the Princess of Asturias Award for Literature 2020. She was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature 2026.

Anne Carson was born in Canada and has been a professor of Classics for over thirty years. Her awards and honours include the T. S. Eliot Prize, a Lannan Award, the Pushcart Prize, the Griffin Prize, on two occasions, fellowships from the Guggenheim and MacArthur Foundations, and the Princess of ...

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