Anne Carson was born in Toronto in 1950 and taught Classics at universities across North America for more than forty years. Since the publication of her first book, Eros the Bittersweet, in 1986, Carson has produced a series of remarkable collections of poetry, translations, essays and talks, weaving between languages and genres and creating new forms of expression.
Among her many translations of Classical works are her versions of the Oresteia, Antigone, Electra and Herakles, as well as her spellbinding renditions of Sappho. Desire, death and selfhood, our literary inheritance and our relationship to the past, recur in her writings as unresolved subjects. Her many prizes include Guggenheim and MacArthur Fellowships, the T.S. Eliot prize and the Lannan Literary Award.
