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Canadian poet and academic (born 1950)
Anne Patricia Carson is a Canadian academic and writer. 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, McGill University, University of Michigan, New York University, and Princeton University. Carson has written more than twenty books, including collections of essays and poetry, as well as translations of ancient Greek tragedies.
More on Wikipedia ↗Prizes established by Alfred Nobel in 1895
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.
More on Wikipedia ↗The Swedish Academy praised the 76-year-old poet and essayist's work for being 'bold and inventive'.
Carson's writing, including The Beauty of the Husband, Autobiography of Red, and Eros the Bittersweet, is eclectic in genre and theme.
Carson taught at Berkeley as the 2000-01 Holloway Lecturer in the Practice of Poetry and as a visiting professor in classics and comparative literature in the 1990s.