Anne Carson

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Anne Carson (born June 21, 1950 in Toronto ) is a Canadian poet , essayist , translator and classical philologist . She lived in Montreal for a number of years and taught from 1980 to 1987 at McGill University , the University of Michigan , and Princeton University . She received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1998 and was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship in 2000. She also received a Lannan Literary Award .

Live and act

Carson's educational path was not straightforward. The fascination for ancient literature, which dominates her work, started in high school. She got to know the world and the language of ancient Greece and received private lessons from her Latin teacher. She enrolled in St. Michael's College at the University of Toronto , but left it twice. Carson, unsettled by the constraints of the curriculum (particularly a compulsory course on Milton ), withdrew into graphic design for a short time. She eventually returned to the University of Toronto, where she received her BA in 1974, and MA and Ph.D. a year later. in 1981. She also studied Greek Metrics and Greek Textual Criticism at the University of St Andrews for a year .

A professor of Classical Studies, with knowledge of classical languages , comparative literature , anthropology , history, and commercial art, brought Carson ideas and subjects from many areas of her writing. She often references, modernizes and translates ancient Greek literature. She has published eighteen books by 2013, all of which mix the forms of poetry, essays, prose, criticism, translation, dramatic dialogue, fiction, and non-fiction. Carson is a distinguished poet-in-residence at New York University and was a 2010 judge for the Griffin Poetry Prize .

Her book "Red Doc>", published in 2013, is the sequel to the "Autobiography of Red", Carson's best-known book and, according to New York Times Magazine, a " crossover classic". It depicts the autobiography of Geryon , a creature from Greek mythology who "lives on a red island and looks after a herd of red cattle". Geryon became known through the tenth task of Heracles , who was supposed to steal this flock and finally kill Geyron. At first the book begins as if it were a study of Stesichoros and handed down fragments in which he deals with Geyron. In his autobiography Carson puts Geyron into the modern world: the figure of Greek mythology becomes a teenager and Heracles becomes his tormentor, who finally breaks his heart. "Red Doc>" is the sequel in which Geyron - only called "G." in this book - is back on the island and tending musk ox . He meets Ida and together with the traumatized war veteran SBG ( Sad But Great ) they go on a road trip. In “Red Doc>” Carson plays with initials and acronyms ; the angle bracket is part of the title and, according to Carson, resulted from the fact that this title was suggested as the file name when the document was saved on the computer and she adopted it.

Carson was an Anna Maria Kellen Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin in autumn 2007 . The Classic Stage Company, a New York-based theater, played three of Carson's translations - Aeschylus ' Agamemnon , Sophocles ' Elektra, and Euripides ' Orestes (as An Oresteia ) - in the 2008/2009 season. She also participated in the Bush Theater on Project Sixty Six (October 2011), for which she wrote a play called Jude: The Goat at Midnight . The piece is based on the letter of Jude from the King James Bible . Once a year Carson and her husband Robert Currie give a class on the art of collaboration called Egocircus at New York University .

On November 16, 2012, Carson received an honorary doctorate from the University of Toronto .

Publications (selection)

  • Odi et Amo Ergo Sum. (1986) PhD Dissertation, University of Toronto
  • Eros the Bittersweet. (1986) Princeton University Press
  • Glass, irony and God.
  • Short talks . Brick Books, 1992
  • Plainwater . Knopf , 1995
  • Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse . Knopf, 1998 (1st volume)
    • Red Doc> . Knopf, 2013 (2nd volume)
      • Translated by Karen Lauer: Rot. A novel in verse. Piper, Munich 2001 (= volume 1)
      • Translated by Anja Utler: Rot. Two novels in verse. S. Fischer, 2019 (both volumes)
  • Economy of the Unlost: Reading Simonides of Ceos with Paul Celan . Princeton University Press , 1999
  • Men in the Off Hours. (2001) button
  • Electra . (Translation) (2001) Oxford
  • The Beauty of the Husband. (2001) button
  • If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho . (2002) button
  • Wonderwater (Alice Offshore) . Volume 2 of Answer Scars , in collaboration with Roni Horn . Steidl, Göttingen 2004
  • Decreation: poetry, essays, opera . Knopf, 2005
  • Grief Lessons: Four Plays by Euripides . (Translation) (2006) New York Review Books Classics
  • To Oresteia (translation by Agamemnon , Elektra , Orestes ). (2009) Faber and Faber
  • NOX , including Catullus 101 from Catullus . New Directions, 2010
  • Antigonick (2012) New Directions
  • Decreation. Poems, opera, essay . Translated by Anja Utler . S. Fischer, Frankfurt 2014, ISBN 978-3-10-010243-0 .
  • Anthropology of water . Translated by Marie Luise Knott . Matthes and Seitz, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-95757-007-9 .

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Andrew Mullins, Patrick McDonagh: A poet's life. In: McGill News: Winter 1997. Retrieved March 8, 2020 .
  2. ^ Cassandra Float Can. In: Penn Humanities Forum. University of Pennsylvania: Wolf Humanities Center, accessed March 8, 2020 .
  3. ↑ a b Anne Carson Poets.org - Poetry, Poems, Bios & More. June 21, 1950. Retrieved October 10, 2013 .
  4. ^ John Simon Guggenheim Foundation - Anne Carson. In: gf.org. Retrieved February 12, 2016 .
  5. ↑ a b Ian Rae: Anne Carson, online biography. Retrieved October 10, 2013 .
  6. ^ Classic Carson. In: University of Toronto Magazine. March 23, 2001, accessed March 8, 2020 .
  7. ^ Anne Carson, Charles Simic Join Faculty. Retrieved October 10, 2013 .
  8. ^ A b Sam Anderson: The Inscrutable Brilliance of Anne Carson. In: New York Times Magazine March 14, 2013.
  9. ^ Sixty-Six Books in the British Theater Guide
  10. ↑ Celebrating Fall Convocation 2012
  11. ^ Griffin Poetry Prize: Anne Carson
  12. ^ Honorary Members: Anne Carson. American Academy of Arts and Letters, accessed March 8, 2019 .
  13. ↑ Princess of Asturias Prize 2020
personal data
SURNAME Carson, Anne
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian poet, essayist, translator and professor of classical music
DATE OF BIRTH June 21, 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Toronto