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 Essay in 29 Tangos (2001), have helped seal the author’s reputation as unique among contemporary poets. Her collection Red Doc> was shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize 2013. Since then, she has published numerous more books including Float (2016), a collection of twenty-two chapbooks whose order is unfixed and whose topics are various; and Wrong Norma (2024). Anne Carson was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2026 ‘for her bold and inventive oeuvre that, in playful dialogue with the classical tradition, has created new forms for contemporary literature’. Author photo © Peter Smith
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