Anne Carson was born in Canada and teaches ancient Greek for a living. Her awards and honours include the Lannan Award, the Pushcart Prize, the Griffin Trust Award for Excellence in Poetry, a Guggenheim fellowship, and the MacArthur ‘Genius’ Award. Carson’s other verse novels, Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse (1998) and The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional...
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This article on the early years of the T. S. Eliot Prize was written and added to the website in 2025. The winner of T. S. Eliot Prize 1999 was Hugo Williams for his collection Billy’s Rain (Faber & Faber). Williams was awarded £5,000, the generous gift of Mrs...
