Whether via her fill-in-the-blank translations or guest appearances on indie rock albums, Anne Carson has infused antiquity with a contemporary tongue
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New Nobel winner Anne Carson’s playful, deeply intelligent work riffs off and reinvents ancient classics – and often lands with breathtaking emotional force.
Carson’s Nobel Prize in Literature celebrates a writer whose work returns to antiquity as an unfinished reservoir of images, voices and fragments capable of unsettling contemporary experience.
At a time when scholarship and creative writing are often treated as separate pursuits, Carson has shown how deeply they belong together.
As readers turn their eyes to nominees for the Nobel Prize in literature and Canada’s Giller Prize, how does Canadian literary recognition translate into international standing?
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Anne Carson’s playful new book, Wrong Norma, meaningfully makes apparently random connections – and the result is compelling.
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Professor, Canadian and Cultural Studies, Stockholm University
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Professor of Writing and Literature, Deakin University
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Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing, University of New England
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Associate Professor in Creative Writing, Griffith University
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PhD, Creative Writing, University of New England
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Adjunct Lecturer, English and Creative Writing, UNSW Canberra, UNSW
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Lecturer, Publishing and Editing, The University of Melbourne
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Associate Professor in Classics & Comparative Literature, University of Bristol
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Senior Lecturer, Discipline of English and Writing, University of Sydney
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Senior Lecturer in Creative Practice and Public Humanities, The University of Melbourne