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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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The Nobel Prizes are awards administered by the Nobel Foundation and granted in accordance with the principle of "for the greatest benefit to humankind". The prizes were first awarded in 1901, marking the fifth anniversary of Alfred Nobel's death. The original Nobel Prizes covered five fields: physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine, literature, and peace, specified in Nobel's will. A sixth prize, the Prize in Economic Sciences, was established in 1968 by Sveriges Riksbank in memory of Alfred Nobel.
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The Handmaid’s Tale author is joined by Emily Wilson, Ocean Vuong and Booker-shortlisted writer Rebecca Perry in celebrating the newly announced Nobel laureate
TORONTO - In the days before the Nobel Prize in Literature was set to be awarded, Claire Foster was holding out hope this would be Anne Carson
Victories like Carson’s are worth holding onto against the larger landscape of gender inequity and a general decline in reading