'Bold and inventive' Canadian poet Anne Carson wins Nobel Literature Prize
Canadian poet, essayist and translator Anne Carson has been awarded this year's Nobel Prize in Literature.
Carson, 76, is celebrated for works that often cross the boundaries between poetry, fiction and scholarship.
She has also translated ancient Greek literature and has been a professor of classics for more than 30 years.
The Nobel Prize is awarded for a lifetime's body of work and is regareded as the most prestigious award in global literature with the winner receiving 12 million Swedish kronor (£900,000, $1.2m).
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