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{{Short description|Canadian poet and academic (born 1950)}}
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| name             = Anne Carson
| honorific_suffix = [[Order of Canada|CM]]
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| birth_name       = Anne Patricia Carson
| birth_date       = {{birth date and age|1950|6|21|mf=y}}
| birth_place      = [[Toronto]], [[Ontario]], Canada
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| education        = {{ubl|[[University of Toronto]]<br />{{small|([[Bachelor of Arts|BA]], [[Master of Arts|MA]], [[Doctor of Philosophy|PhD]])}}}}
| spouse           = Robert Currie
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| period           = 1979–present
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'''Anne Patricia Carson''' {{postnominals|country=CAN|size=85%|CM}} (born June 21, 1950)<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |last=Morra |first=Linda |date=2014-09-08 |title=Anne Carson |url=https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/anne-carson |access-date=2023-05-21 |website=[[The Canadian Encyclopedia]] |archive-date=2023-05-12 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230512193058/http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/anne-carson |url-status=live }}</ref> is a [[Canadians|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|McGill]], [[University of Michigan]], [[New York University]], and [[Princeton University]].

With more than twenty books of writings and translations published to date, Carson was awarded [[Guggenheim Fellowship|Guggenheim]] and [[MacArthur Fellowship]]s, has won the [[Lannan Literary Award]], two [[Griffin Poetry Prize]]s, the [[T. S. Eliot Prize]], the [[Princess of Asturias Awards|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.

==Early life and education==
Anne Carson was born in Toronto on June 21, 1950.<ref name=":0" /> Her father was a banker and she grew up in a number of small Canadian towns.<ref>{{cite web |title=Anne Carson |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Anne-Carson |access-date=2 July 2022 |archive-date=2 July 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220702210552/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Anne-Carson |url-status=live }}</ref> In high school, a Latin instructor introduced Carson to the world and language of Ancient Greece and tutored her privately.<ref name="LitEncyc">{{cite web |last1=Rae |first1=Ian |title=Anne Carson |url=https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=758 |website=The Literary Encyclopedia |access-date=16 September 2020 |date=27 December 2001 |archive-date=16 September 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200916195706/https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=758 |url-status=live }}</ref> Enrolling at [[University of St. Michael's College|St. Michael's College]] at the [[University of Toronto]], she left twice—at the end of her first and second years. Carson, disconcerted by curricular constraints (particularly by a required course on [[John Milton|Milton]]), retired to the world of graphic arts for a short time.<ref name="LitEncyc" /> She did eventually return to the University of Toronto where she completed her [[Bachelor of Arts]] in 1974, her [[Master of Arts]] in 1975, and her [[PhD|Ph.D.]] in 1981.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Ross |first1=Val |author-link1=Val Ross |title=Alumni: Classic Carson |journal=University of Toronto Magazine |date=23 March 2001 |url=https://magazine.utoronto.ca/people/alumni-donors/about-anne-carson-poetry/ |access-date=16 September 2020 |archive-date=16 September 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200916170640/https://magazine.utoronto.ca/people/alumni-donors/about-anne-carson-poetry/ |url-status=live }}</ref> She also spent a year studying Greek metrics and Greek textual criticism at the [[University of St Andrews]].<ref name="Cove Park">{{cite journal |last1=Munoz |first1=Theresa |title=Theresa Munoz and Anne Carson at Cove Park |journal=Scottish Review of Books |date=9 October 2013 |url=https://www.scottishreviewofbooks.org/2013/10/theresa-munoz-and-anne-carson-at-cove-park/ |access-date=16 September 2020 |archive-date=17 September 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200917010613/https://www.scottishreviewofbooks.org/2013/10/theresa-munoz-and-anne-carson-at-cove-park/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

== Writing ==
Trained as a classicist, and with an interest in [[comparative literature]], [[anthropology]], history, and the arts, Carson fuses ideas and themes from many fields in her writing. She frequently references, modernises, and translates [[Ancient Greek literature|Ancient Greek]] and [[Latin literature]] – writers such as [[Aeschylus]], [[Catullus]], [[Euripides]], [[Homer]], [[Ibycus]], [[Mimnermus]], [[Sappho]], [[Simonides of Ceos|Simonides]], [[Sophocles]], [[Stesichorus]], and [[Thucydides]]. She is also draws on the works of more modern writers and thinkers, such as [[Emily Brontë]], [[Paul Celan]], [[Emily Dickinson]], [[Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel]], [[Martin Heidegger]], [[Friedrich Hölderlin]], [[Franz Kafka]], [[John Keats]], [[Gertrude Stein]], [[Simone Weil]], and [[Virginia Woolf]]. Many of her books blend the forms of poetry, essay, prose, criticism, translation, dramatic dialogue, fiction, and non-fiction to varying degrees.

First editions of Carson's eighteen books of writings (as of 2021) have been published by [[Alfred A. Knopf]], [[New Directions Publishing|New Directions]], and the [[Princeton University Press]] in the US, by [[Brick (magazine)|Brick Books]] and [[McClelland & Stewart]] in Canada, and by [[Bloodaxe Books]], [[Jonathan Cape]], [[Oberon Books]], and Sylph Editions in the UK.

=== Works ===
''[[Eros the Bittersweet]]'' – Carson's first book of criticism, published in 1986 – examines [[eros (concept)|eros]] as a simultaneous experience of pleasure and pain best exemplified by "glukupikron", a word of Sappho's creation and the "bittersweet" of the book's title.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Corless-Smith |first1=Martin |editor1-last=Wilkinson |editor1-first=Joshua Marie |editor1-link=Joshua Marie Wilkinson |title=Anne Carson: Ecstatic Lyre |date=2015 |publisher=University of Michigan Press |location=Ann Arbor |isbn=978-0-472-05253-0 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KnEvBgAAQBAJ&q=Anne+Carson:+Ecstatic+Lyre |chapter=Living on the Edge: The Bittersweet Place of Poetry}}</ref> It considers how triangulations of desire appear in the writings of Sappho, [[ancient Greek novel]]ists, and [[Plato]].<ref name="Scranton 2014">{{cite journal |last1=Scranton |first1=Roy |author-link1=Roy Scranton |title=Estranged Pain: Anne Carson's ''Red Doc>'' |journal=Contemporary Literature |date=Spring 2014 |volume=55 |issue=1 |pages=202–214 |publisher=University of Wisconsin Press |doi=10.1353/cli.2014.0010 |s2cid=162212718 |url=https://journals.openedition.org/jsse/1117 |access-date=18 September 2020 |archive-date=7 June 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200607230821/https://journals.openedition.org/jsse/1117 |url-status=live |url-access=subscription }}</ref> A reworking of her 1981 doctoral thesis ''Odi et Amo Ergo Sum'' ("I Hate and I Love, Therefore I Am"),<ref>{{cite book |last1=Carson |first1=Anne |author-link1=Anne Carson |title=Odi et Amo Ergo Sum |date=1981 |publisher=University of Toronto |location=Toronto}} [Doctoral thesis; under the name Anne Carson Giacomelli]</ref> ''Eros the Bittersweet'' "laid the groundwork for her subsequent publications, […] formulating the ideas on desire that would come to dominate her poetic output",<ref name="LitEncyc"/> and establishing her "style of patterning her writings after classical Greek literature".<ref name="Poetry Foundation">{{cite web |title=Anne Carson |url=https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/anne-carson |publisher=The Poetry Foundation |access-date=14 September 2020 |archive-date=26 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200726181311/https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/anne-carson |url-status=live }}</ref>

''[[Men in the Off Hours]]'' (2000) is a hybrid collection of short poems, verse essays, [[epitaph]]s, commemorative prose, interviews, scripts, and translations from ancient Greek and Latin (of [[Alcman]], Catullus, Sappho and others).<ref name="Poetry Foundation" /> The book broke with Carson's established pattern of writing long poems.<ref name="LitEncyc" /> The pieces include diverse references to writers, thinkers, and artists, as well as to historical, biblical, and mythological figures, including: [[Anna Akhmatova]], [[Antigone]], [[Antonin Artaud]], [[John James Audubon]], [[Augustine of Hippo|Augustine]], [[Bei Dao]], [[Catherine Deneuve]], [[Emily Dickinson]], [[Tamiki Hara]], [[Hokusai]], [[Edward Hopper]], Longinus (both [[Longinus|biblical]] and [[Longinus (literature)|literary]]), [[Thucydides]], [[Leo Tolstoy]], and [[Virginia Woolf]].

Carson delivered a series of "short talks", or short-format poems on various subjects, at the address to the [[University of Toronto]] Ph.D. graduating class of 2012.<ref name="U of T honor" /> She also participated in the [[Bush Theatre]]'s project ''[[Sixty Six Books]]'' in 2011, writing a piece titled "Jude: The Goat at Midnight" based on the [[Epistle of Jude]] from the [[King James Bible]].<ref>{{cite web |last1=Woddis |first1=Carole |title=Sixty-Six Books, Bush Theatre |url=https://www.theartsdesk.com/theatre/sixty-six-books-bush-theatre |website=The Arts Desk |access-date=16 September 2020 |date=17 October 2011 |archive-date=16 September 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200916185853/https://www.theartsdesk.com/theatre/sixty-six-books-bush-theatre |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Carson |first1=Anne |editor1-last=Haydon |editor1-first=Christopher |editor2-last=Holmes |editor2-first=Rachel |editor3-last=Power |editor3-first=Ben |editor4-last=Rourke |editor4-first=Josie |editor1-link=Christopher Haydon |editor3-link=Ben Power |editor4-link=Josie Rourke |title=Sixty-Six Books: 21st Century Writers Speak to the King James Bible |date=2011 |publisher=Oberon Books |location=London |isbn=978-1-84943-227-6 |page=521 |chapter=The Goat at Midnight}}</ref>

=== Reception ===
Carson's first book of poetry – 1984's ''[[Canicula di Anna]]''<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Carson |first1=Anne |editor1-last=Weiss |editor1-first=Renée |editor2-last=Weiss |editor2-first=Theodore |editor2-link=Theodore Weiss (poet) |title=Canicula di Anna |journal=Quarterly Review of Literature |date=1984 |volume=25 |pages=4–39 |series=Contemporary Poetry Series 6 |location=Princeton}}</ref> – garnered her first literary prize: the ''[[Quarterly Review of Literature]]'' Betty Colladay Award.<ref name="Meyer Colladay">{{cite book |last1=Meyer |first1=Paul |title=She] ⟨Ha?⟩ She – The ''Canicula di Anna'': A Fractal Approach |date=2016 |publisher=University of Toronto |location=Toronto |page=2 |chapter=Foreword |url=https://tspace.library.utoronto.ca/bitstream/1807/76562/3/Meyer_Paul_A_201611_PhD_thesis.pdf |access-date=26 August 2020 |archive-date=31 March 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230331121258/https://tspace.library.utoronto.ca/bitstream/1807/76562/3/Meyer_Paul_A_201611_PhD_thesis.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="Jaget">{{cite journal |last1=Carson |first1=Anne |title=Jaget |journal=Chicago Review |date=1996 |volume=42 |issue=2 |pages=38–41 |doi=10.2307/25304108 |jstor=25304108 }}</ref> Acclaim for her first book of essays, ''[[Eros the Bittersweet]]'', grew in the fifteen years after it was published in 1986: the book "first stunned the classics community as a work of Greek scholarship; then it stunned the nonfiction community as an inspired return to the lyrically based essays once produced by [[Seneca the Elder|Seneca]], [[Michel de Montaigne|Montaigne]], and [[Ralph Waldo Emerson|Emerson]]; and then, and only then, deep into the 1990s, reissued as 'literature' and redesigned for an entirely new audience, it finally stunned the poets."<ref>{{cite journal |last1=D'Agata |first1=John |author-link1=John D'Agata |title=Review: Men in the Off Hours |journal=Boston Review |date=1 June 2000 |url=http://bostonreview.net/poetry/john-dagata-review-men-hours |access-date=16 September 2020 |archive-date=5 September 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190905142930/http://bostonreview.net/poetry/john-dagata-review-men-hours |url-status=live }}</ref> By the turn of the millennium, ''[[Eros the Bittersweet]]'' had also entered into the popular consciousness, voted onto the 1999 [[Modern Library]] Reader's List for the 100 Best Nonfiction books of the 20th century,<ref name="Modern Library">{{cite web |title=Modern Library: 100 Best Nonfiction |url=http://www.modernlibrary.com/top-100/100-best-nonfiction |publisher=Modern Library |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120306013605/http://www.modernlibrary.com/top-100/100-best-nonfiction |access-date=16 September 2020|archive-date=2012-03-06 }}</ref> and mentioned (along with ''[[Autobiography of Red]]'') in a 2004 episode of the television series ''[[The L Word]]''.<ref>{{cite web |last1=O'Rourke |first1=Meghan |title=Hermetic Hotties: What is Anne Carson doing on The L Word? |url=https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2004/02/why-the-l-word-gives-props-to-anne-carson.html |website=Slate |access-date=16 September 2020 |date=11 February 2004 |archive-date=30 January 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210130025003/https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2004/02/why-the-l-word-gives-props-to-anne-carson.html |url-status=live }}</ref>

Early recognition for her work also came from the [[Quebec Writers' Federation Awards]] (known as "QSPELL" until 1998), which shortlisted Carson for ''Short Talks'' in 1993 before going on to award her the honour three times between 1996 and 2001 (for ''Glass, Irony, and God'', ''Autobiography of Red'', and ''[[The Beauty of the Husband]]'').<ref name="QSPELL" /> Carson's early publications saw her shortlisted for the 1994 Journey Prize for "Water Margins",<ref name="Journey 1994" /> and brought her the 1996 [[Lannan Literary Award]] for Poetry,<ref name="Lannan Award" /> and the 1997 [[Pushcart Prize]] for her poem "Jaget".<ref name="Meyer Pushcart">{{cite book |last1=Meyer |first1=Paul |title=She] ⟨Ha?⟩ She – The ''Canicula di Anna'': A Fractal Approach |date=2016 |publisher=University of Toronto |location=Toronto |page=211 |chapter=''blue for'' (On Lecturing in Anne Carson) |url=https://tspace.library.utoronto.ca/bitstream/1807/76562/3/Meyer_Paul_A_201611_PhD_thesis.pdf |access-date=26 August 2020 |archive-date=31 March 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230331121258/https://tspace.library.utoronto.ca/bitstream/1807/76562/3/Meyer_Paul_A_201611_PhD_thesis.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="Jaget"/> In 1997, Carson was awarded a [[Rockefeller Foundation#Bellagio Center|Rockefeller Bellagio Center Fellowship]],<ref name="Bellagio" /> followed by a [[Guggenheim Fellowship]] for Poetry in 1998,<ref name="Guggenheim 1998" /> and a [[MacArthur Fellowship]] (commonly known as the "Genius Grant") in 2000.<ref name="MacArthur 2000" />

The [[National Book Critics Circle Award]] shortlisted Carson three times (for ''Autobiography of Red'' in 1998, ''[[Men in the Off Hours]]'' in 2000, and ''Nox'' in 2010),<ref name="NBCCA 1998" /><ref name="NBCCA 2000" /><ref name="NBCCA 2010" /> making her and [[Alice Munro]] the first two non-Americans to be nominated after the Award went global in 1998.<ref name="Poetry Foundation"/><ref>{{cite web |last1=Wolfe |first1=Linda |title=Remembering Alice Munro's National Book Critics Circle Award |url=https://www.bookcritics.org/2013/10/23/remembering-alice-munros-national-book-critics-circle-award/ |publisher=National Book Critics Circle |access-date=14 September 2020 |date=23 October 2013 |archive-date=24 September 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200924104757/https://www.bookcritics.org/2013/10/23/remembering-alice-munros-national-book-critics-circle-award/ |url-status=live }}</ref> She was also shortlisted for the [[Forward Prize]] in 1998 for ''Glass and God'', her first book of poetry published in the UK.<ref name="Forward 1998" /> Shortlisted for the [[T. S. Eliot Prize]] four times between 1999 and 2013, Carson won for ''The Beauty of the Husband'' in 2001 (her third consecutive nomination),<ref name="Eliot 2001" /> making her the first woman to be awarded this honour.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Kennedy |first1=Maev |title=Canadian poet becomes first woman to win TS Eliot Prize |url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2002/jan/22/books.humanities |access-date=13 September 2020 |agency=The Guardian |date=22 January 2002 |archive-date=24 June 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190624170847/https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2002/jan/22/books.humanities |url-status=live }}</ref> Carson was the first poet to be awarded the [[Griffin Poetry Prize]] (for ''Men in the Off Hours'' in 2001),<ref name="Griffin 2001" /> and the first to win the prize for a second time (for ''[[Red Doc|Red Doc>]]'' in 2013).<ref name="Griffin 2014" /><ref>{{cite news |title=Anne Carson adds second Griffin poetry prize |url=https://calgaryherald.com/entertainment/books/anne-carson-adds-second-griffin-poetry-prize |access-date=13 September 2020 |work=Calgary Herald |date=7 June 2014}}</ref> She was also a judge for the 2010 Griffin Poetry Prize.<ref name="Griffin 2010" />

Carson was appointed a Member of the [[Order of Canada]] in 2005, the announcement describing her as "a singular voice in the literature of our country".<ref name="Canada MC" /> She was awarded an [[honorary degree]] by her [[alma mater]], the [[University of Toronto]], in 2012.<ref name="U of T honor" /> She also received an honorary degree of [[Doctor of Letters]] in 2014 from the [[University of St Andrews]], where she studied for a diploma with [[Kenneth Dover]] in 1975–1976.<ref name="U of St A honour" />

In 2018, Carson was longlisted for the one-time [[New Academy Prize in Literature]], established as an alternative to the postponed 2018 Nobel Prize.<ref name="New Academy Prize">{{cite news |title=Margaret Atwood, Kim Thúy and Anne Carson nominated for alternative Nobel Prize |url=https://www.cbc.ca/books/margaret-atwood-kim-th%C3%BAy-and-anne-carson-nominated-for-alternative-nobel-prize-1.4744398 |access-date=17 October 2020 |work=CBC |date=12 July 2018 |archive-date=18 November 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221118202917/https://www.cbc.ca/books/margaret-atwood-kim-th%C3%BAy-and-anne-carson-nominated-for-alternative-nobel-prize-1.4744398 |url-status=live }}</ref> In 2020, she was awarded the [[Princess of Asturias Awards|Princess of Asturias Award]] for Literature, with the jury noting that she "has attained levels of intensity and intellectual standing that place her among the most outstanding of present-day writers".<ref name="Asturias" /> In 2021, Carson won the [[PEN/Nabokov Award|PEN/Nabokov Award for Achievement in International Literature]], honouring a body of work marked by "enduring originality and consummate craftsmanship",<ref name="PEN2021">{{cite web |title=Announcing the 2021 PEN America Literary Awards Career Achievement Winners |date=23 March 2021 |url=https://pen.org/literary-awards/2021-pen-america-literary-awards-career-achievement-winners/ |publisher=PEN America |access-date=14 April 2021 |archive-date=14 April 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210414040744/https://pen.org/literary-awards/2021-pen-america-literary-awards-career-achievement-winners/ |url-status=live }}</ref> and received the 2020 [[Governor General's Award for English-language poetry]] for ''[[Norma Jeane Baker of Troy]]'', an award she was first shortlisted for in 2001 (for ''Men in the Off Hours'').<ref name="ggaward" /> Her 2024 book, ''[[Wrong Norma]]'', was longlisted for the [[National Book Award for Poetry]].<ref>{{cite magazine |title=The 2024 National Book Awards Longlist |url=https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/2024-national-book-awards-longlist |access-date=13 September 2024 |magazine=The New Yorker |date=12 September 2024}}</ref>

Carson has also been the subject of two [[edited volume]]s: ''Anne Carson: Ecstatic Lyre'', edited by [[Joshua Marie Wilkinson]] and published by the [[University of Michigan Press]] in 2015, which is dedicated to the breadth of her works;<ref>{{cite book |editor1-last=Wilkinson |editor1-first=Joshua Marie |editor1-link=Joshua Marie Wilkinson |title=Anne Carson: Ecstatic Lyre |date=2015 |publisher=University of Michigan Press |location=Ann Arbor |isbn=978-0-472-05253-0 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KnEvBgAAQBAJ&q=Anne+Carson:+Ecstatic+Lyre}}</ref> and ''Anne Carson/ Antiquity'' ([[sic]]), edited by Laura Jansen and published by [[Bloomsbury Publishing|Bloomsbury]] in 2021, which examines Carson's classicism as it emerges in her poetry, translations, essays, and visual artistry.<ref>{{cite book |editor1-last=Jansen |editor1-first=Laura |title=Anne Carson/ Antiquity |date=2021 |publisher=Bloomsbury Academic |location=New York |isbn=978-1-350-17475-7 |url=https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/anne-carson-antiquity-9781350174771/ |access-date=2021-10-07 |archive-date=2021-10-07 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211007092150/https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/anne-carson-antiquity-9781350174771/ |url-status=live }}</ref> In 2023, ''Anne Carson: The Glass Essayist'', a critical monograph on Carson's work by Elizabeth Sarah Coles, was published by [[Oxford University Press]].<ref>{{cite book |author1-last=Coles |author1-first=Elizabeth Sarah |title=Anne Carson: The Glass Essayist |date=2023 |publisher=Oxford University Press |location=Oxford and New York |isbn=978-0-197-81333-1 |url=https://global.oup.com/academic/product/anne-carson-9780197813331?lang=en&cc=gb# |access-date=3 February 2025}}</ref> The book was awarded the Poetry Foundation's [https://www.poetryfoundation.org/awards/criticism-award Pegasus Award for Poetry Criticism] in 2024.

In recent years, Carson has been regarded as a likely candidate for the [[Nobel Prize in Literature]], alongside such writers as [[Margaret Atwood]], [[Maryse Condé]], [[Haruki Murakami]], [[Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o]], [[Lyudmila Ulitskaya]], and [[Can Xue]].<ref>{{cite news |last1=Ahlander |first1=Johan |title=Moving on from scandal, Swedish Academy to award two Nobel literature prizes |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-nobel-prize-literature/moving-on-from-scandal-swedish-academy-to-award-two-nobel-literature-prizes-idUSKBN1WM23V |access-date=14 September 2020 |work=Reuters |date=7 October 2019 |archive-date=15 February 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200215023028/https://www.reuters.com/article/us-nobel-prize-literature/moving-on-from-scandal-swedish-academy-to-award-two-nobel-literature-prizes-idUSKBN1WM23V |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Haynes |first1=Suyin |title=Last Year's Nobel Prize in Literature Was Canceled Over Scandal and Conflict. Can 2019's Award Mark a Comeback? |url=https://time.com/5696202/nobel-prize-literature-2019/ |publisher=Time |access-date=14 September 2020 |date=9 October 2019 |archive-date=22 September 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200922214309/https://time.com/5696202/nobel-prize-literature-2019/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Shephard |first1=Alex |title=Who Will Win the 2019 (or the 2018!) Nobel Prize in Literature? |url=https://newrepublic.com/article/155316/will-win-2019-or-2018-nobel-prize-literature |publisher=The New Republic |access-date=14 September 2020 |date=9 October 2019 |archive-date=6 October 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201006174515/https://newrepublic.com/article/155316/will-win-2019-or-2018-nobel-prize-literature |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Henley |first1=Jon |title=Two Nobel literature prizes to be awarded after sexual assault scandal |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/oct/10/nobel-prize-for-literature-to-be-awarded-twice-after-sexual-assault-scandal |access-date=14 September 2020 |work=The Guardian |date=10 October 2019 |archive-date=10 October 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191010091152/https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/oct/10/nobel-prize-for-literature-to-be-awarded-twice-after-sexual-assault-scandal |url-status=live }}</ref>

== Translation ==
Carson has published translations of ten [[Greek tragedy|ancient Greek tragedies]] – one by [[Aeschylus]] (''[[Agamemnon (play)|Agamemnon]]''), two by [[Sophocles]] (''[[Antigone (Sophocles play)|Antigone]]'', ''[[Electra (Sophocles play)|Electra]]''), and seven by [[Euripides]] (''[[Alcestis (play)|Alcestis]]'', ''[[Hecuba (play)|Hecuba]]'', ''[[Herakles (Euripides)|Herakles]]'', ''[[Hippolytus (play)|Hippolytus]]'', ''[[Iphigenia in Tauris]]'', ''[[Orestes (play)|Orestes]]'', and ''[[The Bacchae]]'') – as well as the poetry of [[Sappho]] in English.

First editions of Carson's seven books of translations have been published by [[Alfred A. Knopf]], [[Farrar, Straus and Giroux]], the [[The New York Review of Books|New York Review of Books]], and the [[University of Chicago Press]] in the US, and by [[Oberon Books]] and the [[Oxford University Press]] in the UK.

Carson was a [[Rockefeller Foundation|Rockefeller]] Scholar-in-Residence at the [[92nd Street Y]] (New York City) from August 1986 to August 1987, where she worked on a translation of Sophocles' ''Electra''.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Meyer |first1=Paul |title=She] ⟨Ha?⟩ She – The ''Canicula di Anna'': A Fractal Approach |date=2016 |publisher=University of Toronto |location=Toronto |page=192 |chapter=''blue for'' (On Lecturing in Anne Carson) |url=https://tspace.library.utoronto.ca/bitstream/1807/76562/3/Meyer_Paul_A_201611_PhD_thesis.pdf |access-date=26 August 2020 |archive-date=31 March 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230331121258/https://tspace.library.utoronto.ca/bitstream/1807/76562/3/Meyer_Paul_A_201611_PhD_thesis.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref> It was eventually published in 2001<ref name="Electra" /> and included in her 2009 book ''An Oresteia'',<ref name="Oresteia" /> which won the [[PEN Award for Poetry in Translation]] in 2010.<ref name="PEN Oresteia" /> Featuring Aeschylus' ''Agamemnon'', Sophocles' ''Electra'', and Euripides' ''Orestes'', ''An Oresteia'' was staged in New York by the [[Classic Stage Company]] in 2009.<ref>{{cite web |title=An Oresteia |url=https://classicstage.org/shows/2009/03/an-oresteia/ |publisher=Classic Stage Company |access-date=15 September 2020 |archive-date=1 October 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201001120844/https://classicstage.org/shows/2009/03/an-oresteia/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

Carson was also an Anna-Maria Kellen Fellow at the [[American Academy in Berlin]] in 2007, where she worked on a translation of the ancient Greek play ''[[Prometheus Bound]]'' (attributed to [[Aeschylus]]),<ref name="Berlin Fellow" /> an excerpt of which was published in 2010.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Carson |first1=Anne |title=Prometheus Bound: An Excerpt from the Play by Aischylos |journal=The Wolf |date=June 2010 |issue=23 |pages=6–7}}</ref>

In 2015, a production of Carson's ''Antigone''<ref name="Antigone" /> directed by [[Ivo van Hove]] and starring [[Juliette Binoche]] opened at Les Théâtres de la Ville de Luxembourg in 2015 before travelling to cities in Europe and the US, including London ([[Barbican Centre]]), New York ([[Brooklyn Academy of Music|BAM]]), and Paris ([[Théâtre de la Ville]]).<ref>{{cite web |title=Antigone |url=https://tga.nl/en/productions/antigone |publisher=Toneelgroep Amsterdam |access-date=15 September 2020 |archive-date=5 August 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200805213447/https://tga.nl/en/productions/antigone |url-status=live }}</ref>

== Teaching ==
Carson began her Classics teaching career at the [[University of Calgary]] in 1979, before completing her Ph.D. at the [[University of Toronto]].<ref name="LitEncyc" /> In 1980, she joined [[Princeton University]], where she taught as instructor, and later assistant professor.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Meyer |first1=Paul |title=She] (Ha?) She – The ''Canicula di Anna'': A Fractal Approach |date=2016 |publisher=University of Toronto |location=Toronto |page=163 |chapter=''blue for'' (On Metonymns in Anne Carson) |quote=While at Princeton Anne Carson taught (as Instructor and later Assistant Professor) the following courses: ''The Anti-Augustans: Ovid and the Elegists''; ''Introduction to Augustan Literature''; ''Beginner's Latin Continued: Basic Prose''; ''The Lyric Age of Greece''; and ''Greek Drama in Translation''. |url=https://tspace.library.utoronto.ca/bitstream/1807/76562/3/Meyer_Paul_A_201611_PhD_thesis.pdf |access-date=26 August 2020 |archive-date=31 March 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230331121258/https://tspace.library.utoronto.ca/bitstream/1807/76562/3/Meyer_Paul_A_201611_PhD_thesis.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref> She also taught at the [[92nd Street Y]] in [[New York City|New York]] during her time there as a [[Rockefeller Foundation|Rockefeller]] Scholar in Residence (1986–1987).<ref>{{cite book |editor1-last=Bloom |editor1-first=Harold |editor2-last=Lehman |editor2-first=David |editor1-link=Harold Bloom |editor2-link=David Lehman |title=The Best of the Best American Poetry 1988-1997 |date=1998 |page=307 |publisher=Scribner Poetry |location=New York |isbn=0-684-84779-5 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Vsd9jwYZ5HEC&q=The+Best+American+Poetry+1998 |access-date=17 July 2020}}</ref> Having been denied tenure,<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Rae |first1=Ian |title=Runaway Classicists: Anne Carson and Alice Munro's 'Juliet' Stories |journal=Journal of the Short Story in English |date=Autumn 2010 |issue=55 – Special Issue: The Short Stories of Alice Munro |page=5 |publisher=Presses universities d'Angers |url=https://journals.openedition.org/jsse/1117 |access-date=18 September 2020 |issn=1969-6108 |archive-date=7 June 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200607230821/https://journals.openedition.org/jsse/1117 |url-status=live }}</ref> Carson left Princeton in 1987 to teach classical languages and literature at [[Emory University]] in [[Atlanta]] for a year, before moving to [[Montreal]] to join [[McGill University]] as Director of Graduate Studies in Classics.<ref name="Poetry Foundation" />

In the late 1990s, Carson's teaching career hit a hurdle when McGill cancelled all graduate courses in ancient Greek, closed its Classics Department, and moved all remaining Classics courses to its History Department.<ref name="LitEncyc" /> While continuing to teach at McGill as associate professor, Carson dealt with this by spending half of each year as a guest lecturer at other institutions, including the [[University of Michigan]] (Norman Freehling Visiting Professorship, 1999–2000),<ref name="Freehling">{{cite web |title=Institute for the Humanities: Norman Freehling Visiting Professorship |url=https://lsa.umich.edu/humanities/programs/normal-freehling-visiting-professorship-.html |publisher=University of Michigan |access-date=20 September 2020 |archive-date=17 June 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180617022858/https://lsa.umich.edu/humanities/programs/normal-freehling-visiting-professorship-.html |url-status=live }}</ref> the [[University of California, Berkeley]] (Spring 2000), and the [[California College of Arts and Crafts]] in [[Oakland, California|Oakland]] (Spring 2001).<ref name="LitEncyc" /> She was appointed John MacNaughton Professor of Classics at McGill in 2000.<ref>{{cite web |title=Biography of Anne Carson |url=https://www.brickbooks.ca/reviews/biography-of-anne-carson-reviewed-by/ |publisher=Brick Books |access-date=20 September 2020 |archive-date=9 October 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161009120324/http://www.brickbooks.ca/reviews/biography-of-anne-carson-reviewed-by/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

Carson moved to [[Ann Arbor, Michigan|Ann Arbor]] and the University of Michigan in 2003, where she served as Professor of Classical Studies, Comparative Literature, and English Language and Literature until 2009.<ref>{{cite web |title=Faculty History Project: Anne Carson |url=http://faculty-history.dc.umich.edu/faculty/anne-carson |publisher=Millennium Project, University of Michigan |access-date=20 September 2020 |archive-date=11 August 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220811184513/http://faculty-history.dc.umich.edu/faculty/anne-carson |url-status=live }}</ref> In 2004, Carson was in contention for the [[Oxford Professor of Poetry|Professor of Poetry Chair]] at the [[University of Oxford]], placing second behind the eventual appointment [[Christopher Ricks]], with around 30 nominations.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Curtis |first1=Polly |title=Oxford names poetry professor shortlist |url=https://www.theguardian.com/education/2004/apr/30/highereducation.news |access-date=20 September 2020 |work=The Guardian |date=30 April 2004 |archive-date=7 December 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211207185103/https://www.theguardian.com/education/2004/apr/30/highereducation.news |url-status=live }}</ref> She was cited as a potential contender for the four-year position again in 2009.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Waterson |first1=James |title=Poet Laureate snubs Oxford poetry post |url=https://cherwell.org/2009/02/26/poet-laurete-snubs-oxford-poetry-post/ |access-date=2 October 2020 |work=Cherwell |publisher=Oxford Student Publications |date=26 February 2009 |archive-date=22 November 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191122142842/https://cherwell.org/2009/02/26/poet-laurete-snubs-oxford-poetry-post/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

Carson joined the [[New York University]] Creative Writing Program as Distinguished Poet-in-Residence and Visiting Professor in 2009.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Polner |first1=Robert |title=NYU Creative Writing Program Presents New Interactive Performance by Anne Carson, Dec. 10 |url=https://zhangnandi.com/about/news-publications/news/2009/november/nyu_creative_writing_program.html |publisher=New York University |access-date=20 September 2020 |date=24 November 2009 }}{{Dead link|date=October 2024 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> Together with her husband and collaborator Robert Currie, she teaches an annual class at NYU on the art of collaboration, called "Egocircus".<ref name="NYTM 2013">{{cite web |last1=Anderson |first1=Sam |title=The Inscrutable Brilliance of Anne Carson |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/17/magazine/the-inscrutable-brilliance-of-anne-carson.html |website=The New York Times Magazine |access-date=20 September 2020 |date=14 March 2013 |archive-date=23 October 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201023213738/https://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/17/magazine/the-inscrutable-brilliance-of-anne-carson.html |url-status=live }}</ref> Carson was an Andrew D. White Professor-at-Large at [[Cornell University]] from 2010 to 2016,<ref name="Cornell">{{cite web |title=All Professors-at-Large – 1965 to June 30, 2025 |url=https://adwhiteprofessors.cornell.edu/all-professors-at-large-1965-to-june-30-20222/ |website=Program for Andrew D. White Professors-at-Large |publisher=Cornell University |access-date=20 September 2020 |archive-date=15 June 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180615031244/http://adwhiteprofessors.cornell.edu/all-professors-at-large-1965-to-june-30-20222/ |url-status=live }}</ref> and the Mohr Visiting Poet at [[Stanford University]] (Creative Writing Program) in 2013.<ref>{{cite web |title=A Reading by Anne Carson, The Mohr Visiting Poet |url=https://events.stanford.edu/events/335/33565/ |website=Stanford: Event Calendar |publisher=Stanford University |access-date=20 September 2020 |date=23 April 2013 |archive-date=20 January 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220120041605/https://events.stanford.edu/events/335/33565/ |url-status=live }}</ref> She joined [[Bard College]] as Visiting Distinguished Writer-in-Residence in 2014, teaching classical studies and the written arts.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Primoff |first1=Mark |title=Esteemed Writer Anne Carson To Join Bard College Faculty |url=https://www.bard.edu/news/releases/pr/fstory.php?id=2563 |publisher=Bard College |access-date=20 September 2020 |location=Annandale-on-Hudson, New York |date=29 April 2014 |archive-date=15 September 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200915185155/https://www.bard.edu/news/releases/pr/fstory.php?id=2563 |url-status=live }}</ref> Carson has described her more diverse role in the latter part of her career as "a visiting [whatever]", and her decades spent teaching ancient Greek as "a total joy".<ref name="NYTM 2013" />

== Honours ==
Carson was elected a [[Royal Society of Literature]] International Writer in 2022.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://rsliterature.org/rsl-international-writers/|title=RSL International Writers|date=3 September 2023 |access-date=2023-12-03}}</ref>  In May 2023, she was announced as Honorary President of the [[Classical Association]], 2023–24.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Council |url=https://classicalassociation.org/governance/council/ |access-date=2023-05-05 |website=The Classical Association |language=en-US |archive-date=2023-05-05 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230505122741/https://classicalassociation.org/governance/council/ |url-status=live }}</ref> She was awarded the international Vigdís Prize, an award conferred for outstanding contributions to world languages and cultures.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Anne Carson is the 2023 Vigdís Prize Laureate {{!}} University of Iceland |url=https://english.hi.is/news/anne_carson_is_the_2023_vigdis_prize_laureate |access-date=2024-10-02 |website=english.hi.is}}</ref>

== Personal life ==
Carson is known to be reticent about her private life, and discourages autobiographical readings of her writings.<ref name="Willard 2011">{{cite book |last1=Willard |first1=Thomas |editor1-last=Canfield Reisman |editor1-first=Rosemary M. |title=Critical Survey of Poetry: British, Irish and Commonwealth Poets |date=2011 |publisher=Salem Press |location=Pasadena, California |isbn=9781587657559 |pages=225–228 |url=https://www.academia.edu/490379 |access-date=26 August 2020 |chapter=Anne Carson |archive-date=17 May 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220517000614/https://www.academia.edu/490379 |url-status=live }}</ref> Information about her in publications is often limited to the phrase: "Anne Carson was born in Canada and teaches ancient Greek for a living."<ref>{{cite book |last1=Carson |first1=Anne |author-mask=1 |title=Short Talks |date=2015 |publisher=Brick Books Classics |location=London, Ontario |isbn=978-1-77131-342-1}}</ref> While not a confessional poet, her work is considered personal.<ref name="Scranton 2014" /> Carson has said that in her work, she uses her life democratically as just one set of facts among others in the world.<ref name="D'Agata 1997">{{cite journal |last1=Carson |first1=Anne |last2=D'Agata |first2=John |author-link2=John D'Agata |title=A ___ with Anne Carson |journal=The Iowa Review |date=Summer 1997 |volume=27 |issue=2 |pages=1–22 |doi=10.17077/0021-065X.4868 |doi-access=free }}</ref>

Carson's first marriage, during which she used the surname Giacomelli, lasted eight years and ended in 1980.<ref name="LitEncyc" /> This union, and its aftermath, has been claimed as a source for "Kinds of Water" (collected in ''Plainwater''), and for ''[[The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos|The Beauty of the Husband]]''.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Merkin |first1=Daphne |author-link1=Daphne Merkin |title=Last Tango |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/30/books/last-tango.html |access-date=8 October 2020 |work=The New York Times |date=30 September 2001 |quote=It is always difficult, of course, to gauge how much is autobiographical in a writer's material, and Carson is trickier than most in this regard, but 'Husband' strikes me as being the least cloaked about its origins in lived life. |archive-date=11 October 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201011120415/https://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/30/books/last-tango.html |url-status=live }}</ref> Carson has confirmed that her first husband took her notebooks when they divorced (as happens to the protagonist in ''The Beauty of the Husband''), though later returned them.<ref name="Wachtel 2012">{{cite journal |last1=Carson |first1=Anne |last2=Wachtel |first2=Eleanor |title=An Interview with Anne Carson |journal=Brick: A Literary Journal |date=Summer 2012 |issue=89 |pages=29–47 |url=https://brickmag.com/an-interview-with-anne-carson/ |access-date=23 July 2020 |archive-date=8 September 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170908224945/https://brickmag.com/an-interview-with-anne-carson/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

Carson's father Robert had [[Alzheimer's disease]]. "[[The Glass Essay]]" (collected in ''Glass, Irony, and God''), "Very Narrow" (collected in ''Plainwater''), and "Father's Old Blue Cardigan" (collected in ''[[Men in the Off Hours]]'') all deal with his mental and physical decline.

Carson's mother Margaret (1913–1997) died during the writing of ''Men in the Off Hours''. Carson closed the collection with the prose piece "Appendix to Ordinary Time", using crossed-out phrases from the diaries and manuscripts of [[Virginia Woolf]] to craft an epitaph for her.<ref name="LitEncyc" /> ''[[Red Doc|Red Doc>]]'' has been read as a second elegy for the death of her mother.<ref name="Scranton 2014" /> Carson has described her mother as the love of her life.<ref name="Wachtel 2012" /><ref>{{cite book |last1=Carson |first1=Anne |title=Decreation: Poetry, Essays, Opera |date=2006 |publisher=Vintage Books |location=New York |isbn=978-1-4000-7890-5 |page=5 |chapter=Lines}}</ref>

Carson's brother Michael was arrested for drug dealing in 1978. Jumping bail, he fled Canada and she never saw him again.<ref name="Wachtel 2012" /> Carson dealt with the disappearance of her brother from her life in "Water Margins: An Essay on Swimming by My Brother" (collected in ''Plainwater''), which is written as a kind of memoir.<ref name="Willard 2011" /> In 2000, he called her and they arranged to meet in Copenhagen where he lived, but he died before they could reconnect.<ref name="Sehgal 2011">{{cite news |last1=Carson |first1=Anne |last2=Sehgal |first2=Parul |author-link2=Parul Sehgal |title=Evoking the starry lad her brother was |url=https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/evoking-the-starry-lad-her-brother-was-1.577255 |access-date=10 October 2020 |newspaper=The Irish Times |date=19 March 2011 |archive-date=24 July 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210724045901/https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/evoking-the-starry-lad-her-brother-was-1.577255 |url-status=live }}</ref> ''Nox'', an epitaph Carson created for her brother in 2000 and published in 2010, has been described as her most explicitly personal work.<ref name="Scranton 2014" />

Carson is married to the artist Robert Currie, whom she met in [[Ann Arbor]] while teaching at the [[University of Michigan]].<ref name="NYTM 2013" /> She has described Currie as "my collaborator-husband person".<ref name="Cove Park" /> Projects they have worked on together include book designs and performances for ''Nox'' and ''Antigonick''. Carson also refers to Currie as "the Randomizer" during their creative process.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Carson |first1=Anne |last2=Currie |first2=Robert |last3=Berkobien |first3=Megan |author-mask=1 |title=An interview with Anne Carson and Robert Currie |url=https://www.asymptotejournal.com/interview/an-interview-with-anne-carson-and-robert-currie/ |website=Asymptote |access-date=7 October 2020 |date=October 2013 |archive-date=14 October 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201014005528/https://www.asymptotejournal.com/interview/an-interview-with-anne-carson-and-robert-currie/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

On April 19, 2022, Carson and Currie were granted Icelandic citizenship.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.althingi.is/altext/stjt/2022.019.html | title=Lög um veitingu ríkisborgararéttar | access-date=2022-11-20 | archive-date=2022-11-20 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221120001721/https://www.althingi.is/altext/stjt/2022.019.html | url-status=live }}</ref>

In an article in the ''[[London Review of Books]]'' in August 2024, Carson revealed that she had been diagnosed with [[Parkinson's disease]].<ref>{{Cite news |last=Carson |first=Anne |date=2024-08-15 |title=Gloves on! |url=https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/n16/anne-carson/gloves-on |access-date=2024-08-11 |work=London Review of Books |language=en |volume=46 |issue=16 |issn=0260-9592}}</ref>

== Awards and fellowships ==
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=== Winner ===
*1984: ''[[Quarterly Review of Literature]]'' Betty Colladay Award for ''Canicula di Anna''<ref name="Meyer Colladay" />
*1996: [[Lannan Literary Award]] for Poetry<ref name="Lannan Award">{{cite web |title=Anne Carson: 1996 Lannan Literary Award for Poetry |url=https://lannan.org/literary/detail/anne-carson/literary-award |website=Lannan Foundation |access-date=12 September 2020 |archive-date=1 October 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201001080055/https://lannan.org/literary/detail/anne-carson/literary-award |url-status=live }}</ref>
*1996: [[Quebec Writers' Federation Awards|QSPELL Award]] – [[A. M. Klein]] Prize for Poetry for ''Glass, Irony and God''<ref name="QSPELL" />
*1997: [[Pushcart Prize]] for "Jaget"<ref name="Meyer Pushcart" />
*1998: QSPELL Award – A. M. Klein Prize for Poetry for ''[[Autobiography of Red]]''<ref name="QSPELL" />
*2001: [[Griffin Poetry Prize]] for ''[[Men in the Off Hours]]'' (Canadian winner)<ref name="Griffin 2001">{{cite web |title=Anne Carson: Griffin Poetry Prize 2001 |url=https://www.griffinpoetryprize.com/awards-and-poets/shortlists/2001-shortlist/anne-carson/ |website=The Griffin Trust for Excellence in Poetry |access-date=12 September 2020 |archive-date=5 April 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200405122314/http://www.griffinpoetryprize.com/awards-and-poets/shortlists/2001-shortlist/anne-carson/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
*2001: [[T. S. Eliot Prize]] for ''[[The Beauty of the Husband]]''<ref name="Eliot 2001">{{cite web |title=About the T. S. Eliot Prize: List of Previous Winners |url=https://tseliot.com/prize/about-the-t-s-eliot-prize/ |publisher=T. S. Eliot Foundation |access-date=12 September 2020 |archive-date=30 September 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200930145428/https://tseliot.com/prize/about-the-t-s-eliot-prize/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
*2001: [[Los Angeles Times Book Prize|''Los Angeles Times'' Book Prize]] for Poetry for ''The Beauty of the Husband''<ref>{{cite news |last1=Guccione |first1=Jean |title=10 Authors Honored With Times Book Prizes |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2002-apr-28-me-awards28-story.html |access-date=12 September 2020 |agency=Los Angeles Times |date=28 April 2002}}</ref>
*2001: [[Quebec Writers' Federation Awards|QWF Award]] – A. M. Klein Prize for Poetry for ''The Beauty of the Husband''<ref name="QSPELL" />
*2010: [[PEN Award for Poetry in Translation]] for ''An Oresteia''<ref name="PEN Oresteia">{{cite web |title=2010 PEN Award for Poetry in Translation |url=https://pen.org/2010-pen-award-for-poetry-in-translation/ |publisher=PEN America |access-date=12 September 2020 |date=16 November 2012 |archive-date=21 June 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200621170341/https://pen.org/2010-pen-award-for-poetry-in-translation/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
*2012: Criticos Prize (London Hellenic Prize) for ''Antigonick''<ref name="Criticos 2012">{{cite web |title=The 2012 Prize |url=http://londonhellenicprize.eu/past-winners-2/2012-prize/ |publisher=The London Hellenic Prize |access-date=12 September 2020 |archive-date=30 December 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201230035928/http://londonhellenicprize.eu/past-winners-2/2012-prize/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
*2014: Griffin Poetry Prize for ''[[Red Doc|Red Doc>]]'' (Canadian winner)<ref name="Griffin 2014">{{cite web |title=Anne Carson: Griffin Poetry Prize 2014 |url=https://www.griffinpoetryprize.com/awards-and-poets/shortlists/2014-shortlist/anne-carson/ |website=The Griffin Trust for Excellence in Poetry |access-date=12 September 2020 |archive-date=21 September 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200921154113/https://www.griffinpoetryprize.com/awards-and-poets/shortlists/2014-shortlist/anne-carson/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
*2016: [[Blue Metropolis]] International Literary Grand Prize for lifetime achievement<ref name="Blue Met 2016">{{cite web |title=Anne Carson wins 2016 Blue Metropolis Literary Grand Prix |url=http://bluemet.blogspot.com/2016/03/anne-carson-wins-2016-blue-metropolis.html |website=Azure Scratchings |publisher=Blue Metropolis Literary Festival & Foundation |access-date=12 September 2020 |date=23 March 2016 |archive-date=25 July 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210725054842/http://bluemet.blogspot.com/2016/03/anne-carson-wins-2016-blue-metropolis.html |url-status=live }}</ref>
*2019: Manuel Acuña International Poetry Prize<ref>{{cite news |title=Anne Carson gana el Premio Internacional Manuel Acuña 2019 |url=https://aristeguinoticias.com/2312/kiosko/anne-carson-gana-el-premio-internacional-manuel-acuna-2019/ |access-date=14 September 2020 |work=Aristegui Noticias |date=23 December 2019 |language=es |archive-date=1 March 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200301201614/https://aristeguinoticias.com/2312/kiosko/anne-carson-gana-el-premio-internacional-manuel-acuna-2019/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
*2020: [[Princess of Asturias Awards|Princess of Asturias Award]] for Literature<ref name="Asturias">{{cite web |title=Anne Carson: Princess of Asturias Award for Literature 2020 |website=Fundación Princesa de Asturias |url=https://www.fpa.es/en/princess-of-asturias-awards/laureates/2020-anne-carson.html |access-date=18 June 2020 |archive-date=15 September 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200915204531/https://www.fpa.es/en/princess-of-asturias-awards/laureates/2020-anne-carson.html |url-status=live }}</ref>
*2020: [[Governor General's Award for English-language poetry|Governor General's Literary Award]] for ''[[Norma Jeane Baker of Troy]]''<ref name="ggaward" />
*2021: [[PEN/Nabokov Award]] for Achievement in International Literature<ref name="PEN2021" />
*2025: [[Paris Review]] Hadada Prize for lifetime achievement<ref name="Hadada 2025">{{cite web |title=Anne Carson Will Receive Our 2025 Hadada Award |url=https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2024/10/09/anne-carson-will-receive-our-2025-hadada-award/ |website=The Paris Review |access-date=20 June 2025 |date=9 October 2024}}</ref>

=== Finalist ===
*1993: [[Quebec Writers' Federation Awards|QSPELL Award]] – [[A. M. Klein]] Prize for Poetry shortlist for ''Short Talks''<ref name="QSPELL">{{cite web |title=The QWF Literary Awards: The A. M. Klein Prize for Poetry |url=https://qwf.org/prize/the-a-m-klein-prize-for-poetry/ |publisher=Quebec Writer's Federation |access-date=12 September 2020 |archive-date=8 December 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221208130359/https://qwf.org/prize/the-a-m-klein-prize-for-poetry/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
*1994: [[Journey Prize]] shortlist for "Water Margins"<ref name="Journey 1994">{{cite book |editor1-last=Glover |editor1-first=Douglas |editor1-link=Douglas Glover (writer) |title=The Journey Prize Anthology 6: Short Fiction from the Best of Canada's New Writers |date=1993 |publisher=McClelland & Stewart |location=Toronto |isbn=978-0771003141}}</ref>
*1998: [[Forward Prizes for Poetry|Forward Prize]] shortlist for ''Glass and God''<ref name="Forward 1998">{{cite web |title=Forward Prizes Alumni: Shortlists by Year, 1998 |work=Forward Arts Foundation |url=https://www.forwardartsfoundation.org/forward-prizes-for-poetry/forward-prizes-alumni/ |access-date=12 September 2020 |archive-date=24 September 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200924082945/https://www.forwardartsfoundation.org/forward-prizes-for-poetry/forward-prizes-alumni/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
*1998: [[National Book Critics Circle Award]] Poetry finalist for ''[[Autobiography of Red]]''<ref name="NBCCA 1998">{{cite web |title=The National Book Critics Circle Award: 1998 Winners & Finalists |url=https://www.bookcritics.org/past-awards/1998/ |publisher=National Book Critics Circle |access-date=12 September 2020 |archive-date=28 September 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200928085617/https://www.bookcritics.org/past-awards/1998/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
*1999: [[T. S. Eliot Prize]] shortlist for ''Autobiography of Red''<ref>{{cite news |last1=Potts |first1=Robert |title=Best in the Language |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2000/jan/15/poetry.awardsandprizes |access-date=12 September 2020 |agency=The Guardian |date=15 January 2000 |archive-date=22 October 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151022063724/http://www.theguardian.com/books/2000/jan/15/poetry.awardsandprizes |url-status=live }}</ref>
*2000: T. S. Eliot Prize shortlist for ''[[Men in the Off Hours]]''<ref>{{cite news |last1=Gibbons |first1=Fiachra |title=Sun shines again on poet Longley |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2000/jan/15/poetry.awardsandprizes |access-date=12 September 2020 |agency=The Guardian |date=23 January 2001 |archive-date=22 October 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151022063724/http://www.theguardian.com/books/2000/jan/15/poetry.awardsandprizes |url-status=live }}</ref>
*2000: National Book Critics Circle Award Poetry finalist for ''Men in the Off Hours''<ref name="NBCCA 2000">{{cite web |title=The National Book Critics Circle Award: 2000 Winners & Finalists |url=https://www.bookcritics.org/past-awards/2000/ |publisher=National Book Critics Circle |access-date=12 September 2020 |archive-date=25 June 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200625051658/https://www.bookcritics.org/past-awards/2000/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
*2001: [[Governor General's Literary Awards|Governor General's Literary Award]] Poetry finalist for ''Men in the Off Hours''<ref name="ggaward">{{cite web |title=Governor General's Literary Awards: Past Winners and Finalists |url=https://ggbooks.ca/past-winners-and-finalists |website=Governor General's Literary Awards |publisher=Canada Council for the Arts |access-date=12 September 2020 |archive-date=21 April 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210421134720/https://ggbooks.ca/past-winners-and-finalists |url-status=live }}</ref>
*2002: [[Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize]] finalist for ''[[The Beauty of the Husband]]''<ref>{{cite web |title=Madeline DeFrees Receives 2002 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize |url=http://www.poets.org/academy/news/pr021019.cfm |publisher=The Academy of American Poets |access-date=14 September 2020 |date=19 October 2002|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20021209032808/http://www.poets.org/academy/news/pr021019.cfm |archive-date=2002-12-09 }}</ref>
*2010: National Book Critics Circle Award Poetry finalist for ''Nox''<ref name="NBCCA 2010">{{cite web |title=The National Book Critics Circle Award: 2010 Winners & Finalists |url=https://www.bookcritics.org/past-awards/2010/ |publisher=National Book Critics Circle |access-date=12 September 2020 |archive-date=21 September 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200921190204/https://www.bookcritics.org/past-awards/2010/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
*2013: T. S. Eliot Prize shortlist for ''[[Red Doc|Red Doc>]]''<ref>{{cite news |title=T. S. Eliot poetry prize shortlist announced |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-24657057 |access-date=12 September 2020 |agency=BBC News |date=24 October 2013}}</ref>
*2013: [[Kitschies|The Kitschies]] Red Tentacle Award (best novel) finalist for ''Red Doc>''<ref>{{cite news |last1=Flood |first1=Alison |title=Thomas Pynchon in line for Kitschies' Red Tentacle award: Famously reclusive author joins Anne Carson, Patrick Ness, Ruth Ozeki and James Smythe on science fiction prize shortlist |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/jan/23/thomas-pynchon-kitschies-red-tentacle-award |access-date=2 October 2020 |work=The Guardian |date=23 January 2014 |archive-date=12 November 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201112021355/http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/jan/23/thomas-pynchon-kitschies-red-tentacle-award |url-status=live }}</ref>
*2014: [[Folio Prize]] shortlist for ''Red Doc>''<ref name=2014Folio>{{cite web |url=http://www.thefolioprize.com/2014/02/the-2014-folio-prize-shortlist-is-announced/ |title=The 2014 Folio Prize Shortlist is Announced |publisher=The Folio Prize |date=10 February 2014 |access-date=13 February 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140302022828/http://www.thefolioprize.com/2014/02/the-2014-folio-prize-shortlist-is-announced/ |archive-date=2 March 2014}}</ref>
*2018: [[New Academy Prize in Literature]] longlist<ref name="New Academy Prize" />
*2022: Governor General's Literary Award Poetry finalist for ''H of H Playbook''<ref>{{cite web |title=The Canada Council for the Arts Reveals the Governor General's Literary Awards Finalists |url=https://canadacouncil.ca/press/2022/10/the-canada-council-for-the-arts-reveals-the-governor-generals-literary-awards-finalists |website=Governor General's Literary Awards |publisher=Canada Council for the Arts |access-date=17 October 2022 |archive-date=16 October 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221016233455/https://canadacouncil.ca/press/2022/10/the-canada-council-for-the-arts-reveals-the-governor-generals-literary-awards-finalists |url-status=live }}</ref>
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=== Fellowships ===
*1997: [[Rockefeller Foundation#Bellagio Center|Rockefeller Bellagio Center]] Fellowship<ref name="Bellagio">{{cite journal |last1=Mullins |first1=Andrew |last2=McDonagh |first2=Patrick |title=A Poet's Life |journal=McGill News: Alumni Quarterly |date=Winter 1997 |url=http://news-archive.mcgill.ca/w97/poet.htm |access-date=20 September 2020 |publisher=McGill University |location=Montreal|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131104062705/http://news-archive.mcgill.ca/w97/poet.htm |archive-date=2013-11-04 }}</ref>
*1998: [[Guggenheim Fellowship]] for Poetry<ref name="Guggenheim 1998">{{cite web |title=Fellows: Anne Carson |url=https://www.gf.org/fellows/all-fellows/anne-carson/ |website=John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation |access-date=12 September 2020 |ref=Guggenheim |archive-date=1 October 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191001111629/https://www.gf.org/fellows/all-fellows/anne-carson/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
*2000: [[MacArthur Fellowship]]<ref name="MacArthur 2000">{{cite web |title=MacArthur Fellows Program: Anne Carson, Poet and Classicist |url=https://www.macfound.org/fellows/634/ |website=MacArthur Foundation |access-date=12 September 2012 |date=1 July 2000 |archive-date=9 November 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201109162135/https://www.macfound.org/fellows/634/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
*2007: Anna-Maria Kellen Fellowship, [[American Academy in Berlin|The American Academy in Berlin]]<ref name="Berlin Fellow">{{cite web |title=Fellows & Distinguished Visitors: Anne Carson (Class of Fall 2007) |url=https://www.americanacademy.de/person/anne-carson/ |publisher=The American Academy in Berlin: Hans Arnhold Center |access-date=12 September 2020 |archive-date=24 September 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200924041122/https://www.americanacademy.de/person/anne-carson/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
*2011: [[Creative Scotland]] / Cove Park [[Muriel Spark]] Fellowship<ref>{{cite web |title=Creative Scotland / Cove Park Muriel Spark Fellowship: Anne Carson |url=https://covepark.org/residencies/creative-scotlandcove-park-muriel-spark-fellowship/ |publisher=Cove Park |access-date=16 September 2020 |archive-date=16 September 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200916232735/https://covepark.org/residencies/creative-scotlandcove-park-muriel-spark-fellowship/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
*2018: Inga Maren Otto Fellowship, [[The Watermill Center]]<ref>{{cite web |title=Anne Carson (In Residence: Inga Maren Otto Fellow) |url=https://www.watermillcenter.org/anne-carson/#1 |website=The Watermill Center |date=22 November 2017 |access-date=12 September 2020 |archive-date=18 May 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200518212713/https://www.watermillcenter.org/anne-carson/#1 |url-status=live }}</ref>

=== Academic ===
*1986–1987: [[Rockefeller Foundation|Rockefeller]] Scholar-in-Residence at the [[92nd Street Y]] (New York)<ref>{{cite book |editor1-last=Bloom |editor1-first=Harold |editor2-last=Lehman |editor2-first=David |editor1-link=Harold Bloom |editor2-link=David Lehman |title=The Best of the Best American Poetry 1988-1997 |date=1998 |publisher=Scribner Poetry |location=New York |isbn=0-684-84779-5 |page=307 |chapter=Anne Carson |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Vsd9jwYZ5HEC&q=The+Best+American+Poetry+1998 |access-date=17 July 2020}}</ref>
*2012: [[Honorary degree]] from the [[University of Toronto]]<ref name="U of T honor">{{cite web |last1=Au-Yeung |first1=Gavin |title=Celebrating Fall Convocation 2012 |url=https://www.utoronto.ca/news/celebrating-fall-convocation-2012 |publisher=University of Toronto |access-date=12 September 2020 |date=12 November 2012 |archive-date=3 December 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181203193212/https://www.utoronto.ca/news/celebrating-fall-convocation-2012 |url-status=live }}</ref>
*2014: Honorary degree ([[Doctor of Letters]]) from the [[University of St Andrews]]<ref name="U of St A honour">{{cite web |last1=Sweetman |first1=Rebecca |author-link1=Rebecca Sweetman |title=Laureation address: Anne Carson |url=https://news.st-andrews.ac.uk/archive/laureation-address-anne-carson/ |publisher=University of St Andrews |access-date=22 September 2020 |date=1 December 2014 |archive-date=17 June 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210617232125/https://news.st-andrews.ac.uk/archive/laureation-address-anne-carson/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

=== Other ===
*1999: [[American Academy of Arts and Sciences]] International Honorary Member<ref>{{cite web |title=Member Directory: Ms. Anne Carson |url=https://www.amacad.org/person/anne-carson |publisher=American Academy of Arts and Sciences |access-date=14 September 2020 |archive-date=11 August 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220811153751/https://www.amacad.org/person/anne-carson |url-status=live }}</ref>
*1999: [[Modern Library]]: 100 Best Nonfiction Books (Reader's List) – ''[[Eros the Bittersweet]]''<ref name="Modern Library" />
*2000: [[New York Times Notable Book|New York Times Notable Books of the Year List]] – ''[[Men in the Off Hours]]''<ref>{{cite news |title=Notable Books |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/12/03/books/notable-books.html |access-date=2 October 2020 |work=The New York Times |date=3 December 2000 |page=66 |archive-date=17 November 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201117121236/https://www.nytimes.com/2000/12/03/books/notable-books.html |url-status=live }}</ref>
*2005: Member of the [[Order of Canada]]<ref name="Canada MC">{{cite web |title=Order of Canada: Anne Carson, C.M. |url=https://archive.gg.ca/honours/search-recherche/honours-desc.asp?lang=e&TypeID=orc&id=10628 |website=Governor General of Canada Archives |access-date=12 September 2020 |date=29 June 2005 |archive-date=19 June 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200619162917/https://archive.gg.ca/honours/search-recherche/honours-desc.asp?lang=e&TypeID=orc&id=10628 |url-status=live }}</ref>
*2010: [[Griffin Poetry Prize]] Judge<ref name="Griffin 2010">{{cite web |title=Griffin Poetry Prize: 2010 Judges |url=https://www.griffinpoetryprize.com/judges/2010-judges/ |website=The Griffin Trust for Excellence in Poetry |access-date=12 September 2020 |archive-date=10 August 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200810052202/https://www.griffinpoetryprize.com/judges/2010-judges/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
*2011: [[American Academy of Arts and Letters]] Foreign Honorary Member<ref>{{cite web |title=Members: Anne Carson |url=https://artsandletters.org/?s=%22Anne+Carson%22&restype=member |publisher=American Academy of Arts and Letters |access-date=14 September 2020 |archive-date=18 August 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220818174058/https://artsandletters.org/?s=%22Anne+Carson%22&restype=member |url-status=live }}</ref>
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==Selected bibliography==
{{main|Anne Carson bibliography}}
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=== Writings ===
*''[[Eros the Bittersweet]]'' (1986)<ref>{{cite book |last1=Carson |first1=Anne |title=Eros the Bittersweet: An Essay |date=1986 |publisher=Princeton University Press |location=Princeton |isbn=9780608027401}}</ref>
*''Short Talks'' (1992)<ref>{{cite book |last1=Carson |first1=Anne |author-mask=1 |title=Short Talks |date=1992 |publisher=Brick Books |location=London, Ontario |isbn=978-1-77131-342-1}}</ref>
*''Glass, Irony, and God'' (1995)<ref>{{cite book |last1=Carson |first1=Anne |author-mask=1 |title=Glass, Irony, and God |date=1995 |publisher=New Directions |location=New York |isbn=978-0-8112-1302-8}}</ref> {{small|– includes "[[The Glass Essay]]"}}
*''Plainwater'' (1995)<ref>{{cite book |last1=Carson |first1=Anne |author-mask=1 |title=Plainwater: Essays and Poetry |date=1995 |publisher=Alfred A. Knopf |location=New York |isbn=0-679-43178-0}}</ref>
*''[[Autobiography of Red]]'' (1998)<ref>{{cite book |last1=Carson |first1=Anne |author-mask=1 |title=Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse |date=1998 |publisher=Alfred A. Knopf |location=New York |isbn=0-375-40133-4}}</ref>
*''Economy of the Unlost'' (1999)<ref>{{cite book |last1=Carson |first1=Anne |author-mask=1 |title=Economy of the Unlost (Reading Simonides of Keos with Paul Celan) |date=1999 |publisher=Princeton University Press |location=Princeton |isbn=0-691-03677-2}}</ref>
*''[[Men in the Off Hours]]'' (2000)<ref>{{cite book |last1=Carson |first1=Anne |author-mask=1 |title=Men in the Off Hours |date=2000 |publisher=Alfred A. Knopf |location=New York |isbn=978-0-375-40803-8}}</ref>
*''[[The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos|The Beauty of the Husband]]'' (2001)<ref>{{cite book |last1=Carson |first1=Anne |author-mask=1 |title=The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos |date=2001 |publisher=Alfred A. Knopf |location=New York |isbn=9780375408045}}</ref>
*''Decreation'' (2005)<ref>{{cite book |last1=Carson |first1=Anne |author-mask=1 |title=Decreation: Poetry, Essays, Opera |date=2005 |publisher=Alfred A. Knopf |location=New York |isbn=978-1-4000-4349-1}}</ref>
*''Nox'' (2010)<ref>{{cite book |last1=Carson |first1=Anne |author-mask=1 |title=Nox |date=2010 |publisher=New Directions |location=New York |isbn=978-0-8112-1870-2}}</ref> {{small|– incorporates translation of [[Catullus 101]]}}
*''Antigonick'' (2012)<ref>{{cite book |last1=Carson |first1=Anne |author-mask=1 |title=Antigonick (Sophokles) |date=2012 |publisher=New Directions |location=New York |isbn=9780811219570}}</ref> {{small|– version of ''[[Antigone (Sophocles play)|Antigone]]'' by [[Sophocles]]}}
*''[[Red Doc|Red Doc>]]'' (2013)<ref>{{cite book |last1=Carson |first1=Anne |author-mask=1 |title=Red Doc> |date=2013 |publisher=Alfred A. Knopf |location=New York |isbn=9780307960597}}</ref> {{small|– follow-up to ''Autobiography of Red''}}
*''Nay Rather'' (2013)<ref>{{cite book |last1=Carson |first1=Anne |author-mask=1 |title=Nay Rather |date=2013 |publisher=Sylph Editions (with the Center for Writers and Translators at the American University of Paris); The Cahiers Series, Number 21 |location=London |isbn=978-1-90963103-8}}</ref>
*''The Albertine Workout'' (2014)<ref>{{cite book |last1=Carson |first1=Anne |author-mask=1 |title=The Albertine Workout |date=2014 |publisher=New Directions [Poetry Pamphlet #13] |location=New York |isbn=978-0-8112-2317-1}}</ref>
*''Float'' (2016)<ref>{{cite book |last1=Carson |first1=Anne |author-mask=1 |title=Float |date=2016 |publisher=Alfred A. Knopf |location=New York |isbn=978-1-101-94684-8}}</ref>
*''[[Norma Jeane Baker of Troy]]'' (2019)<ref>{{cite book |last1=Carson |first1=Anne |author-mask=1 |title=Norma Jeane Baker of Troy |date=2019 |publisher=Oberon Books |location=London |isbn=9781786827616}}</ref> {{small|– version of ''[[Helen (play)|Helen]]'' by [[Euripides]]}}
*''The Trojan Women: A Comic'' (2021)<ref>{{cite book |last1=Carson |first1=Anne |last2=Bruno |first2=Rosanna |author-mask=1 |title=Euripides' The Trojan Women: A Comic |date=2021 |publisher=New Directions |location=New York |isbn=9780811230797}}</ref> {{small|– version of the Euripides [[The Trojan Women|play]]}}
*''H of H Playbook'' (2021)<ref>{{cite book |last1=Carson |first1=Anne |author-mask=1 |title=H of H Playbook |date=2021 |publisher=New Directions |location=New York |isbn=9780811231237}}</ref> {{small|– about ''[[Herakles (Euripides)|Herakles]]'' by Euripides}}
*''Wrong Norma'' (2024)<ref>{{cite book |last1=Carson |first1=Anne |author-mask=1 |title=Wrong Norma |date=2024 |publisher=New Directions |location=New York |isbn=9780811230346}}</ref>
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=== Translations ===
*''Electra'' (2001)<ref name="Electra">{{cite book |last1=Carson |first1=Anne |title=Sophocles, Electra |date=2001 |publisher=Oxford University Press |location=Oxford & New York |isbn=0-19-504960-8}}</ref> {{small|– ''[[Electra (Sophocles play)|Electra]]'' by [[Sophocles]]}}
*''[[If Not, Winter]]'' (2002)<ref name="Winter">{{cite book |last1=Carson |first1=Anne |author-mask=1 |title=If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho |date=2002 |publisher=Alfred A. Knopf |location=New York |isbn=978-0-375-41067-3}}</ref> {{small|– the poetry of [[Sappho]]}}
*''Grief Lessons'' (2006)<ref name="Grief">{{cite book |last1=Carson |first1=Anne |author-mask=1 |title=Grief Lessons: Four Plays by Euripides |date=2006 |publisher=The New York Review of Books |location=New York |isbn=1-59017-180-2}}</ref> {{small|– ''[[Herakles (Euripides)|Herakles]]'', ''[[Hecuba (play)|Hecuba]]'', ''[[Hippolytus (play)|Hippolytus]]'', and ''[[Alcestis (play)|Alcestis]]'' by [[Euripides]]}}
*''An Oresteia'' (2009)<ref name="Oresteia">{{cite book |last1=Carson |first1=Anne |author-mask=1 |title=An Oresteia |date=2009 |publisher=Farrar, Straus and Giroux |location=New York |isbn=978-0-86547-916-6}}</ref> {{small|– ''[[Agamemnon (play)|Agamemnon]]'' by [[Aeschylus]], ''Electra'' by Sophocles, ''[[Orestes (play)|Orestes]]'' by Euripides}}
*''Iphigenia Among the Taurians'' (2014)<ref name="Iphigenia">{{cite book |last1=Carson |first1=Anne |author-mask=1 |title=Euripides, Iphigenia Among the Taurians |date=2014 |publisher=The University of Chicago Press |location=Chicago & London |isbn=978-0-226-20362-1}}</ref> {{small|– ''[[Iphigenia in Tauris]]'' by Euripides}}
*''Antigone'' (2015)<ref name="Antigone">{{cite book |last1=Carson |first1=Anne |title=Sophokles, Antigone |date=2015 |publisher=Oberon Books |location=London |isbn=978-1-78319-810-8}}</ref> {{small|– ''[[Antigone (Sophocles play)|Antigone]]'' by Sophocles}}
*''Bakkhai'' (2015)<ref name="Bakkhai">{{cite book |last1=Carson |first1=Anne |author-mask=1 |title=Euripides, Bakkhai |date=2015 |publisher=Oberon Books |location=London |isbn=978-1-78319-915-0}}</ref> {{small|– ''[[The Bacchae]]'' by Euripides}}
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==References==
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==External links==
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* [https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/anne-carson Poetry Foundation biography]
* [https://poets.org/poet/anne-carson Academy of American Poets biography]
* [https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/anne-carson/ ''The Canadian Encyclopedia'' biography]
* [https://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/5420/the-art-of-poetry-no-88-anne-carson ''The Paris Review'' interview] by [[Will Aitken]] (2004)
* [https://brickmag.com/an-interview-with-anne-carson/ ''Brick'' interview] by [[Eleanor Wachtel]] (2012)
* [https://www.publicbooks.org/cant-stop-screaming/ Commentary on ''Antigonick''] by [[Judith Butler]] (2012)
* [https://49thshelf.com/Blog/2021/07/06/The-Chat-with-GG-s-Literature-Award-Winner-Anne-Carson The Chat with GG's Literature Award Winner Anne Carson] ''49th Shelf'' (2021)

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[[Category:Canadian women literary critics]]
[[Category:Poets from Toronto]]
[[Category:University of Toronto alumni]]
[[Category:PEN/Nabokov Award winners]]
[[Category:Naturalised citizens of Iceland]]
[[Category:Poets from Quebec]]