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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In 2023 the T. S. Eliot Prize celebrated its 30th anniversary. We marked the occasion by looking back at the collections which have won ‘the Prize poets most want to win’ (Sir Andrew Motion). When Anne Carson won the T. S. Eliot Prize 2001 with The Beauty of the Husband...
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 2001 was the Canadian poet Anne Carson for her collection The Beauty of the Husband (Cape Poetry). The first woman to...
