Anne Carson
- January 4, 2024
- Poet
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Anne Carson Biography
| Name | Anne Carson |
| Birthday | Jun 21 |
| Birth Year | 1950 |
| Place Of Birth | Toronto |
| Home Town | Ontario |
| Birth Country | Canada |
| Birth Sign | Gemini |
| Spouse | Robert Currie |
Anne Carson is one of the most popular and richest Poet who was born on June 21, 1950 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Canadian poet writer, professor, and the 2001 winner of the T.S. Eliot Prize. She is most well-known for the novel of verse in 1998 titled Autobiography of Red; she also became a well-known translator for Ancient Greek literary works.
They as well as She and Jane Urquhart, poets and writers of the same generation, were both born in Canada., poets and writers from the same generation each were born in Canada.
In 1986 Carson published her first book, Eros the Bittersweet. Named one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all time by the Modern Library, the book traces the concept of “eros” in ancient Greece through its representations in poetry of the time. Carson considers seriously how triangular and mimesis desires have been represented in the poetry of Sappho, as well as the relationship of eros to solitude. Famously, Carson analyzes Sappho’s Fragment 31 as representing “eros as deferred, defied, obstructed, hungry, organized around a radiant absence – to represent eros as lack.”
Carson was an Anna-Maria Kellen Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin, Germany, for Fall 2007. The Classic Stage Company, a New York–based theatre company, produced three of Carson’s translations: Aeschylus’ Agamemnon; Sophocles’ Electra; and Euripides’ Orestes (as An Oresteia), in repertory, in the 2008/2009 season. From 2010 to 2016, Carson was an Andrew Dickson White Professor-at-Large at Cornell University. She is Distinguished Poet-in- Residence at New York University and was a judge for the 2010 Griffin Poetry Prize.
She was married to Robert Currie, and the two taught a course known as Egocircus in New York University.
Anne Carson Net Worth
| Net Worth | $5 Million |
| Source Of Income | Poet |
| House | Living in own house. |
Anne Carson is one of the richest Poet from Canada. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Anne Carson 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)
She fell in love with Greek as well as Roman literature in the years following her high school graduation and continued to pursue Classics through St. Michael’s College of the University of Toronto.
Her dramatic work, Jude: The Goat at Midnight was staged during 2011 in conjunction with Project Sixty Six at London’s Bush Theatre.
Anne Carson (born June 21, 1950) is a Canadian poet, essayist, translator, and professor of Classics. Carson lived in Montreal for several years and taught at McGill University, the University of Michigan, and at Princeton University from 1980 to 1987 and Bard College. She was a 1998 Guggenheim Fellow, and in 2000 she was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship. She has also won a Lannan Literary Award.
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In 2015, her translation of Sophocles’ tragedy Antigone was performed in Luxembourg and at the Barbican Centre. The production was directed by Ivo van Hove and starred Juliette Binoche.
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