Anne Carson

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Anne Carson
Born June 21, 1950 (1950-06-21) (age 61)
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Occupation Poet
Nationality Canadian
Genres poetry, essay, opera libretto, new genres ('short talks', 'shot lists')
Notable work(s) Autobiography of Red

Anne Carson (born June 21, 1950) is a Canadian poet, essayist, translator and professor of Classics. Carson lived in Montreal for several years and taught at McGill University,[1] the University of Michigan,[2] and at Princeton University from 1980-1987.[3] She was a 1998 Guggenheim Fellow.[4] and in 2000 she was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship. She has also won a Lannan Literary Award.[5]

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Though distinguished, Carson's academic training did not run a straight path. The fascination with classical literature which dominates her work began to take root in high school. There, a Latin instructor introduced her to the world and language of Ancient Greece and tutored the future poet privately.[6] Enrolling at 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 Milton), retired to the world of graphic arts for a short time.[6] She did eventually return to the University of Toronto where she completed her B.A. in 1974, her M.A. in 1975 and her Ph.D. in 1981.[7]

A professor of the classics, with background in classical languages, comparative literature, anthropology, history, and commercial art, Carson blends ideas and themes from many fields in her writing. She frequently references, modernizes, and translates Greek mythology. She has published fifteen books as of 2010, all of which blend the forms of poetry, essay, prose, criticism, translation, dramatic dialogue, fiction, and non-fiction.

Carson was an Anna-Maria Kellen Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin, Germany, for Fall 2007. The Classic Stage Company, a New York–based theatre company, produced three of Carson's translations: Aeschylus' Agamemnon; Sophocles' Electra; and Euripides' Orestes (as An Oresteia), in repertory, in the 2008/2009 season. She was Poet-in-Residence at New York University.[8] and was a judge for the 2010 Griffin Poetry Prize.

She will also be partaking in the Bush Theatre's project Sixty Six (October 2011) where she has written a piece based upon a chapter of the King James Bible.[9]

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