Anne Carson

Anne Carson (1950 -     )

Canadian-Icelandic poet, essayist, translator, and professor

of classics, comparative literature, and creative writing.

She currently divides her time between

Reykjavik, Iceland and Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Her work has been honoured with many prestigious awards,

including the 2026 Nobel Prize in Literature for

"her bold and inventive oeuvre that, in playful dialogue

with the classical tradition, has created

new ‌forms for contemporary literature."

"She is a writer of the great fires — love, fury, grief — but

also of the quotidian. She amuses and shatters,” her agent,

Nicole Aragi, told the New York Times in a statement.