Canadian poet, translator, and classicist Anne Carson has won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Literature 🏆❤️

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A joy to work on this. I met amazing creative practitioners at every stage of this fund, working with fantastic colleagues to deliver it. Really exciting projects funded and also (I hope) the start of other projects where we had to make difficult decisions.

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”Recognizing children's books as a catalyst for language revitalization, UNESCO and IBBY have curated a collection of nearly 170 remarkable books in over 150 Indigenous and endangered languages.” 🩷 Read more here ⤵️ #languagerevitalization #indigenouslanguages

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I wrote this for the Guardian about the Couch to 5k for Reading. You can start today, I have a whole 'read across August' idea in this week's post: naomialderman.substack.com/p/ovids-exil... and here is my Reading Clinic: substack.com/chat/2882751... www.theguardian.com/books/2026/a...

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I’m in The Times today! I've written about Muriel Spark's The Driver's Seat, obeying your own 'queer dictatorial sense’, and scaring yourself to death while writing. Scarier still, I've just taken off my cap to find I’ve been left with a hairstyle reminiscent of Dido in her early-00s heyday.

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