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Why the woman who won the Nobel Prize for Literature wears boxing gloves

Carson’s boxing gloves reflect her response to Parkinson’s disease and her combative style, as images from her Princeton lecture spread online after the Nobel announcement.

Carson has Parkinson’s disease and says that it’s “all but impossible” to worry about the “black doorway” of death when someone has strapped a boxing glove onto your hand.

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Why the woman who won the Nobel Prize for Literature wears boxing gloves

Carson has Parkinson’s disease and says that it’s “all but impossible” to worry about the “black doorway” of death when someone has strapped a boxing glove onto your hand.

·North Sydney, Australia
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Sydney Morning Herald broke the news in North Sydney, Australia on Saturday, October 17, 2026.
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