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Canadian poet Anne Carson, winner of the 2026 Nobel Prize in Literature, performs her work ‘Antigonick’ at the Moderna Museet art gallery in Stockholm in August 2025. (Pontus Lundahl/TT News Agency via AP)

Anne Carson’s Nobel Prize: Where the ancient world meets postmodern literature

Carson’s Nobel Prize in Literature celebrates a writer whose work returns to antiquity as an unfinished reservoir of images, voices and fragments capable of unsettling contemporary experience.
A mural of Leonard Cohen looks down on people attending a Canada Post event where three new stamps where unveiled in Cohen’s honour in Montrréal, in September 2019. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Graham Hughes

Literary life after death: How authors are remembered across Canada

By celebrating our authors — especially on Canada Day — we honour their role in shaping, illuminating, and preserving our unique Canadian culture.

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