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.

The Nobel Prize committee said they had selected her "for her bold and inventive oeuvre that, in playful dialogue with the classical tradition, has created new forms for contemporary literature".

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).

Carson has also translated ancient Greek literature and has been a professor of classics for more than 30 years.