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95. Anne Carson's Most Loyal Readers May Never Have Known She Won the Nobel Prize Until This Translator Stepped In
This podcast is a presentation of The Meow Library.
According to NobelPrize.org, The Nobel Prize in Literature 2026 was awarded to Anne Carson "for her bold and inventive oeuvre that, in playful dialogue with the classical tradition, has created new forms for contemporary literature." That's all well and good--she deserves it. But in making this announcement, the Nobel committee forgot to alert Carson's largest North American audience, the common housecat. BookScan data shows that 90% of all Anne Carson's English-language titles are sold to households with three or more cats. So how will they…
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