# A Nobel winner's novel in verse — retained record

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source: [news](https://highsignal.app/data/news) (news:semafor)  published 2026-10-09 14:55 ingested 2026-10-10 02:49

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Autobiography of Red, by Anne Carson.
Through “47 compulsively readable long-lined poems of intense cinematic detail,” the Canadian writer — and winner of the 2026 Nobel Prize for Literature — retells the ancient Greek myth of Hercules and Geryon as a modern day queer love story, the British poet Ruth Padel wrote in a New York Times review of Carson’s 1998 novel. “Carson writes in language any poet would kill for: sensuous and funny, poignant, musical and tender, brilliantly lighted.” Buy Autobiography of Red from your local bookstore.
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