Anne Crason | A Brief Biography
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Anne Carson, born in Toronto in 1950, is a poet, essayist, translator, and classicist who has lived between ancient Greek and modern English. A high school Latin teacher led her to Greek, and she went on to teach classics at McGill, Princeton, Michigan, and NYU.
Her books refuse the borders of genre. Eros the Bittersweet examines desire as absence, Autobiography of Red remakes a lost Greek epic as a verse novel, If Not, Winter translates Sappho's fragments with their silences intact, and Nox is an elegy built as an object. Loss, translation, and the broken text run through them all.
On October 8, 2026, the Swedish Academy awarded her the Nobel Prize in Literature for her "bold and inventive oeuvre," making her the second Canadian author to receive the honor. Earlier honors include the MacArthur Fellowship, the Griffin Poetry Prize, and the T. S. Eliot Prize.
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Anne Carson, born in Toronto in 1950, is a poet, essayist, translator, and classicist who has lived between ancient Greek and modern English. A high school Latin teacher led her to Greek, and she went on to teach classics at McGill, Princeton, Michigan, and NYU.
Her books refuse the borders of genre. Eros the Bittersweet examines desire as absence, Autobiography of Red remakes a lost Greek epic as a verse novel, If Not, Winter translates Sappho's fragments with their silences intact, and Nox is an elegy built as an object. Loss, translation, and the broken text run through them all.
On October 8, 2026, the Swedish Academy awarded her the Nobel Prize in Literature for her "bold and inventive oeuvre," making her the second Canadian author to receive the honor. Earlier honors include the MacArthur Fellowship, the Griffin Poetry Prize, and the T. S. Eliot Prize.
@KIAU_Literary_Society
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