Anne Carson

Poet

Birthday June 21, 1950

Birth Sign Cancer

Birthplace Canada

Age 73 years old

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About

Canadian poet, author, professor, and 2001 recipient of the T.S. Eliot Prize. She is best known for a 1998 verse novel entitled Autobiography of Red; she also became a prominent translator of Ancient Greek literary works.

Before Fame

She became fascinated with Greek and Roman literature during her high school years and continued to study Classics at St. Michael's College of the University of Toronto.

Trivia

Her dramatic piece, Jude: The Goat at Midnight, was produced in 2011 as part of Project Sixty Six at London's Bush Theatre.

Family Life

She married Robert Currie, and the two co-taught a a course called Egocircus at New York University.

Associated With

She and Jane Urquhart, poets and writers of the same generation, were both born in Canada.