Carson, Anne, 1950-

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Information for Authority record

Name (Hebrew)
קרסון, אן, 1950-
Name (Latin)
Carson, Anne, 1950-
Other forms of name
nne Giacomelli, Anne Carson, 1950-
Date of birth
1950-06-21
Associated country
Canada
Field of activity
Classical literature
Poetry
Occupation
Translators
Classicists
College teachers
Essayists
Librettists
Poets
Associated Language
eng
Gender
female
MARC
MARC

Other Identifiers

VIAF: 110404294
Wikidata: Q2633699
Library of congress: n 85370220
OCoLC: oca01512200
Sources of Information
  • Eros the bittersweet, c1986:CIP t.p. (Anne Carson) data sheet, etc. (b. 6/21/50; Classics Dept., Princeton Univ.; Ph. D., Classics, Univ. of Toronto, 1981)
  • Euripides. Bakkhai, 2017:ECIP t.p. (a new translation by Anne Carson) data view (Anne Carson was born in Canada and teaches ancient Greek for a living at New York University. Her awards and honors include the Lannan Award, the Pushcart Prize, the Griffin Trust Award for Excellence in Poetry, a Guggenheim fellowship, and the MacArthur "Genius" Award. She is the author of Nox; Glass, Irony and God; The Autobiography of Red; The Beauty of the Husband; Decreation; Economy of the Unlost; Eros the Bittersweet; Grief Lessons; If Not, Winter; Men in the Off Hours; and Plainwater)
  • LAC internal file, August 31, 2022(access point: Carson, Anne, 1950-; variant: Giacomelli, Anne Carson, 1950-; born 1950; Canadian)
  • Wikipedia, Apr. 30, 2014(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 1980-1987; born Toronto, Ontario; genres: poetry, essay, opera libretto, new genres ('short talks', 'shot lists'))
  • nuc89-71508: Her Odi et amo ergo sum [MI] 1981(hdg. on MH rept.: Giacomelli, Anne Carson, 1950- ; usage: Anne Carson Giacomelli)
  • Her Eros the bittersweet, c1986:CIP t.p. (Anne Carson) data sheet, etc. (b. 6/21/50; Classics Dept., Princeton Univ.; Ph. D., Classics, Univ. of Toronto, 1981)
  • Sappho. If not, winter, 2002:CIP t.p. (translated by Anne Carson) fact sheet (lives in Montreal; director of grad. studies, classics at McGill Univ.; currently teaching at UC Berkeley, CA)
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Wikipedia description:

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, University of Michigan, New York University, and Princeton University. 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.

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