Anne Carson

Anne Carson

Anne Patricia Carson is a Canadian poet, essayist, translator, classicist, and professor. Trained at the University of Toronto, Carson has taught classics, comparative literature, and creative writing at universities across the United States and Canada since 1979, including McGill, University of Michigan, New York University, and Princeton University. With more than twenty books of writings and translations published to date, Carson has been awarded Guggenheim and MacArthur Fellowships, has won the Lannan Literary Award, two Griffin Poetry Prizes, the T. S. Eliot Prize, the Princess of Asturias Award, the Governor General's Award for English-language poetry, and the PEN/Nabokov Award, and was appointed a Member of the Order of Canada in 2005 for her contribution to Canadian letters. In 2026, she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature "for her bold and inventive oeuvre that, in playful dialogue with the classical tradition, has created new forms for contemporary literature."

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• Entity:  Poet, Essayist, Translator, Classicist, Professor

• Born:  Anne Patricia Carson, June 21, 1950, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
• Age:  76 Years
• Occupation:  Poet, Essayist, Translator, Classicist, Professor
• Citizenship:  Canada, Iceland
• Education:  University Of Toronto, (Ba, Ma, Phd)
• Period:  1979–Present
• Genre:  Poetry, Essay, Translation
• Notable awards:  Lannan Literary Award, Guggenheim Fellowship, Macarthur Fellowship, Griffin Poetry Prize (Twice), T. S. Eliot Prize, Member Of The Order Of Canada, Princess Of Asturias Award, Pen/Nabokov Award, 2026 Nobel Prize In Literature
• Spouse:  Robert Currie
• Born:  21 June 1950
• Wikidata description:  Canadian Poet, Essayist, And Academic (Born 1950)
• Wikidata label:  Anne Carson
• Wikidata aliases:  Anne Carson, Anne Patricia Carson

• Related Topics:  Pen/Nabokov Award Winners, Naturalised Citizens Of Iceland, Roberta C. Holloway Lecturer In The Practice Of Poetry, Canadian Nobel Laureates, Translators From Greek, Nobel Laureates In Literature, Canadian Literary Critics, Translators To English