🔴Nobel Prize in Literature awarded to Canada’s Anne Carson

We and our partners do the following data processing based on your consent: store and/or access information on a device, personalised advertising and content, advertising and content measurement, audience research and services development The Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to Canadian poet and essayist Anne Carson on Thursday by the Swedish Academy in Stockholm. Carson will also receive 12 million Swedish kronor (about $1.2 million) alongside the prestigious award. Poet Anne Carson attends the 75th National Book Awards ceremony at Cipriani Wall Street on November 20, 2024, in New York. © Andy Kropa, AP Canadian author Anne Carson won the Nobel Prize in Literature Thursday “for her bold and inventive oeuvre that, in playful dialogue with the classical tradition, has created new forms for contemporary literature”.

Last year, Hungarian writer Laszlo Krasznahorkai, whose surreal and anarchic novels combine a bleak world view with mordant humour,won the Nobel Prize in Literaturefor work the judges said upholds the power of art in the midst of “apocalyptic terror”. Read moreLaszlo Krasznahorkai: Hungary's 'master of apocalypse' Three science awards were announced earlier this week. The Nobel for medicine went to three scientists whose work led to a tool that uses light to help unravel how the brain works.

The physics award recognised a scientist’s efforts to demystify a rare group of neutrinos. The chemistry prize recognised two scientists for untangling mysterious mirror images in molecules, a discovery that has been used to develop countless drugs. This week ends with Friday's peace prize.

The Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences will be announced Monday. The prize money this year is 12 million Swedish kronor (about $1.2 million), whether for an individual, small group of laureates or organisation. Nobel Prize in Physics awarded to Francis Halzen for ice research Nobel Prize in Chemistry awarded to France's Henri Kagan, Japan's Kenso Soai 1. 1 ## French interior ministry estimates 250,000 join student protests; organisers claim 450,000 As it happened France 2. 2 ## Ukraine hits Moscow with one of its largest drone attacks in two years Europe 3. 3 ## 'We're fed up': Paris students rise up in a movement that shows no sign of slowing On the ground France Includes a video 3 min 4. 4 ## French student unions demand talks with Lecornu as PM seeks to ease tensions As it happened France 5. 5 ## How Lula’s successes in Brazil may have paved the way for his presidential defeat Explainer Americas 6. 6 ## Macron observes test of new nuclear-capable missile without warhead France © 2026 Copyright France 24 - All rights reserved.

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