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Anne Carson

1950 - Today

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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Anne Carson is the 4,600th most popular writer (down from 2,957th in 2019), the 370th most popular biography from Canada (down from 175th in 2019) and the 22nd most popular Canadian Writer.

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Among writers, Anne Carson ranks 4,600 out of 7,302. Before her are Sotades, Dmitry Mamin-Sibiryak, Adela Zamudio, Hedwig Courths-Mahler, Eyvindr skáldaspillir, and Wen Yiduo. After her are Robert Richardson, Sandra Brown, Mira Lobe, Tommaso Landolfi, Paruyr Sevak, and Per Wästberg.

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Among people born in 1950, Anne Carson ranks 373. Before her are Omer Beriziky, Ewa Aulin, Carlo Verdone, Maurilio De Zolt, Vondie Curtis-Hall, and Paloma San Basilio. After her are Patrick Juvet, Nicholas Hammond, Miguel Oviedo, John Diehl, Anémone, and Nasirul Mulk.

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In Canada

Among people born in Canada, Anne Carson ranks 370 out of 1,622. Before her are Sami Zayn (1984), Jason Gray-Stanford (1970), Mazo de la Roche (1879), Nia Vardalos (1962), Georges Vézina (1887), and Emma Raducanu (2002). After her are Guy Lafleur (1951), Carole Laure (1948), Ted Cruz (1970), Laurence J. Peter (1919), George Vernot (1901), and Peter Kirby (1931).

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Among WRITERS In Canada

Among writers born in Canada, Anne Carson ranks 22. Before her are David Shore (1959), Gordon R. Dickson (1923), Louise Penny (1958), Naomi Klein (1970), Émile Nelligan (1879), and Mazo de la Roche (1879). After her are Laurence J. Peter (1919), Nancy Huston (1953), Grant Allen (1848), Steven Erikson (1959), Justine Musk (1972), and Mordecai Richler (1931).

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