Anne Carson

Anne Patricia Carson (born June 21, 1950) is a Canadian academic and author. Born in Toronto, she graduated from the University of Toronto and became a professor and lecturer at several universities since 1979. Throughout her career she has taught classics, comparative literature, and creative writing. She has taught at the University of Calgary, Princeton University, McGill University, University of Michigan, and New York University. Carson has written more than twenty books, including collections of essays and poetry, as well as translations of ancient Greek tragedies.

She has been 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. In 2026, she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.