Birthdate: June 21, 1950
Sun Sign: Gemini
Birthplace: Toronto
Anne Carson is a highly esteemed Canadian poet, essayist, translator, classicist, and professor with a distinguished career in academia spanning several decades. Since 1979, she has been a leading figure in the field, teaching classics, comparative literature, and creative writing at prestigious universities in the United States and Canada. With a vast body of work that includes over twenty published books of writings and translations, Carson has received numerous prestigious awards and honors, such as Guggenheim and MacArthur Fellowships, 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. In recognition of her significant contributions to Canadian letters, she was appointed a Member of the Order of Canada in 2005.
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