Anne Carson

1950 -

country of citizenship: Canada

languages spoken, written or signed: English, Ancient Greek

educated at: University of Toronto, St. Michael's College

occupation: linguist, poet, translator, professor, literary critic, writer, author

award received: Guggenheim Fellowship, MacArthur Fellows Program, Member of the Order of Canada, PEN Award for Poetry in Translation, Berlin Prize, Princess of Asturias Literary Prize, Lannan Literary Awards, Griffin Poetry Prize, T. S. Eliot Prize

influenced by: Virginia Woolf

Anne Patricia Carson (born June 21, 1950) 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. Source: Wikipedia (en)