# Why Anne Carson has won the Nobel Prize for Literature: For her bold, inventive, breathtaking work

> In books like her 1998 verse novel Autobiography of Red (which has sold nearly 100,000 copies in the United States), Wrong Norma (2024), her recent poetry collection, and her 1986 debut Eros the Bittersweet – a book-length essay about the god of love – she challenges formal conventions and moves across literary genres.

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- Involves: Alexander Howard, Ann Arbor, Michigan, Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red, Catullus, Eros the Bittersweet, Glass, Irony, and God, Iceland, If Not, Winter, Nox, Sappho, Stesichorus

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