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The Canadian writer received the Swedish Academy's highest honor on Thursday, October 8. A master of textual deviation, Carson, who began as a classical philologist, blends poetry and popular culture, prose and verse, with both humor and erudition.

The new Nobel laureate uses finely wrought forms to constrain a terrible excess of feeling.

Carson, 76, is celebrated for works that often cross boundaries between poetry, fiction and scholarship.

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Alberta separatist leader Jeffrey Rath’s firm took $11.5 million from one First Nation trust to help him make a court-ordered refund to another First Nation, court documents show.