Anne Carson

Anne Carson CM
Carson in 2024
Born	Anne Patricia Carson (1950-06-21) June 21, 1950 (age 74) Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Occupation	Poet essayist translator classicist professor
Citizenship	Canada Iceland
Education	University of Toronto (BA, MA, PhD)
Period	1979–present
Genre	Poetry essay translation
Notable works	Eros the Bittersweet Autobiography of Red Men in the Off Hours The Beauty of the Husband Red Doc>
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
Spouse	Robert Currie

Anne Patricia Carson CM (born June 21, 1950)^[1] 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, Michigan, NYU, and Princeton.

With more than twenty books of writings and translations published to date, Carson was 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.