Canadian writer Anne Carson (Toronto, 1950) was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature this Thursday. Author of books such as Decreation, The Beauty of the Husband and Albertine—all published by Vaso Roto and translated into Catalan by Núria Busquet Molist—, the poet is one of the most prominent voices of her generation. Carson has been awarded "for having created a bold and inventive literature, which has built new forms of contemporary literature from the classical tradition." The Nobel Committee called the writer to announce the recognition. "We spoke for only a few minutes. She was very surprised and happy. She told me she was in Iceland listening to the wind," said the secretary of the Swedish Academy, Ingrid Carlberg.