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Anne Carson
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Born | June 21, 1950 Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
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Nationality | Canadian |
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Period | 1979–present |
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Spouse | Robert Currie |
Anne Carson CM (born June 21, 1950) is a Canadian poet, essayist, translator, classicist, and professor. She was born in Toronto.
Carson has taught classics, comparative literature, and creative writing at universities across the United States and Canada since 1979, including McGill, Michigan, NYU, and Princeton.
Publishing more than twenty books of writings and translations. She was appointed a Member of the Order of Canada in 2005 for her works to Canadian letters.
Works
- Eros the Bittersweet (1986)
- Short Talks (1992)
- Glass, Irony, and God (1995) – includes "The Glass Essay"
- Plainwater (1995)
- Autobiography of Red (1998)
- Economy of the Unlost (1999)
- Men in the Off Hours (2000)
- The Beauty of the Husband (2001)
- Decreation (2005)
- Nox (2010) – incorporates translation of Catullus 101
- Antigonick (2012) – version of Antigone by Sophocles
- Red Doc> (2013) – follow-up to Autobiography of Red
- Nay Rather (2013)
- The Albertine Workout (2014)
- Float (2016)
- Norma Jeane Baker of Troy (2019) – version of Helen by Euripides

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