Anne Carson

Ian Rae (University of Western Ontario)

The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 3.1.2: Canadian Writing and Culture (Anglophone): The Twentieth Century and beyond, 1900-present.
Vol. editors: Sarah Henzi (Simon Fraser University), Kerry Myler (Birmingham Newman University), Glen Nichols (Mount Allison University), Wendy Roy (University of Saskatchewan), Denis Salter (McGill University), Karis Shearer (University of British Columbia)

Dates

Born 21 Jun 1950
Activity 1986-ongoing

Places

Born in Canada
Active in Canada

Activities

Primary

Essayist
Lecturer
Librettist
Literary Critic/ Historian
Philologist
Translator

Other

Novelist
Poet

Resources

Carson's Works

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Anne Carson burst onto the international poetry scene in 1987 when she published the long poem “Kinds of Water” in

Grand Street

, an American magazine devoted to poetry, art and short fiction. “Kinds of Water” subsequently appeared in

The Best American Poetry of 1990

, and since then Carson has won a Lannan Award (1996), Pushcart Prize (1997), Guggenheim Fellowship (1998), MacArthur Fellowship (2000), and Griffin Prize (2001). Perhaps because of the extensive coverage the media has given Carson's publications and awards, she is notoriously reticent about her personal life. The biographical note in her books consists of one short sentence: “Anne Carson lives in Canada”. Carson has also pressured her current publisher, Knopf, to remove all promotional blurbs and quotations from…

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Citation: Rae, Ian. "Anne Carson". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 27 December 2001 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=758, accessed 21 November 2024.]