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Canadian poet and academic (born 1950)
Anne Patricia Carson is a Canadian classicist, writer, and academic. Born in Toronto, she graduated from the University of Toronto and starting in 1979 became a professor of classics, comparative literature, and creative writing at several universities. She has taught at the University of Calgary, Princeton University, McGill University, University of Michigan, and New York University. Carson has written more than twenty books, including collections of essays and poetry, as well as translations of ancient Greek tragedies.
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Anne Carson, who won the Nobel Prize in Literature on Thursday, understands that sometimes the most powerful thing a poet can say is nothing at all, writes Spencer Klavan.
The Swedish Academy called Carson's work "bold and inventive." Carson's genre-bending writing mixes verse, prose, dialogue and translation. She's one of several prominent women to win the prize in recent years.
Anne Carson, the Canadian poet and essayist, was awarded the 2026 Nobel Prize in Literature today.