In 2015, a production of Carson's Antigone [56] directed by Ivo van Hove and starring Juliette Binoche opened at Les Théâtres de la Ville de Luxembourg in 2015 before travelling to cities in Europe and the US, including London ( Barbican Centre), New York ( BAM), and Paris ( Théâtre de la Ville). [57] Teaching [ edit ] Anne and I swore on pain of death not to be illustrative but to be metaphorical in these images,” Anno says. “We are interested in having an open reading that readers and viewers can make on their own.” Carson, Anne (1981). Odi et Amo Ergo Sum. Toronto: University of Toronto. [Doctoral thesis; under the name Anne Carson Giacomelli]

In recent years, Carson has been regarded as a likely candidate for the Nobel Prize in Literature, alongside such writers as Margaret Atwood, Maryse Condé, Haruki Murakami, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, Lyudmila Ulitskaya, and Can Xue. [45] [46] [47] [48] Translation [ edit ] a b c d Scranton, Roy (Spring 2014). "Estranged Pain: Anne Carson's Red Doc>". Contemporary Literature. University of Wisconsin Press. 55 (1): 202–214. doi: 10.1353/cli.2014.0010. S2CID 162212718. Archived from the original on 7 June 2020 . Retrieved 18 September 2020. Carson, Anne (1984). Weiss, Renée; Weiss, Theodore (eds.). "Canicula di Anna". Quarterly Review of Literature. Contemporary Poetry Series 6. Princeton. 25: 4–39. T. S. Eliot poetry prize shortlist announced". BBC News. 24 October 2013 . Retrieved 12 September 2020. Faculty History Project: Anne Carson". Millennium Project, University of Michigan. Archived from the original on 11 August 2022 . Retrieved 20 September 2020.The Canada Council for the Arts Reveals the Governor General's Literary Awards Finalists". Governor General's Literary Awards. Canada Council for the Arts. Archived from the original on 16 October 2022 . Retrieved 17 October 2022. Carson's first marriage, during which she used the surname Giacomelli, lasted eight years and ended in 1980. [3] This union, and its aftermath, has been claimed as a source for "Kinds of Water" (collected in Plainwater), and for The Beauty of the Husband. [75] Carson has confirmed that her first husband took her notebooks when they divorced (as happens to the protagonist in The Beauty of the Husband), though later returned them. [76] Member Directory: Ms. Anne Carson". American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Archived from the original on 11 August 2022 . Retrieved 14 September 2020. a b "Fellows: Anne Carson". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Archived from the original on 1 October 2019 . Retrieved 12 September 2020. I enjoyed my reading experience, but honestly found parts of the translation took away from the language I liked in previous translations I have read of Antigone. Having now read yet another translation of Antigone (yes, maybe I am moderately obsessed with this play, sue me) I like this translation less and less.

Carson: —It was a room with eight video screens all around, and on the screens were people performing all within the same house, the same song, which gradually rises for about a half hour to a climax. And by the end they're all wailing—like Beethoven's Ninth Symphony. On one screen is Ragnar himself singing along. During the video it shows people shifting and then there are others trying to start off a cannon on the front lawn. But it's just surprisingly inspiring, and if you stay for a long time you become emotionally involved as it rises to this crescendo and we're all just singing away— O'Rourke, Meghan (11 February 2004). "Hermetic Hotties: What is Anne Carson doing on The L Word?". Slate. Archived from the original on 30 January 2021 . Retrieved 16 September 2020. So not exactly iambic hexameter or whatever. But somehow the grip of the original poem is still there, refracted and hollowed out and exposed from the beginning as pompous, hot-gas, baggy stuff. And I also get a very strong feeling about what Anne Carson thinks about men like Kreon and I like having that layer there in the language. It is a cry of grief posed in question form, emphatic, handwritten, excessive and abbreviated and, in this sense, a measured scream that gives us some sense of who or what lives on when it is all too late.— Judith Butler Public Books It's sad that the pictures, by Bianca Stone, don't try to either work with the text, or against it; it's sad Stone seems to think that this kind of freedom is both expressive and appropriate; it's sad that Carson chose this artist for the project: but worst of all is that reviewers, with almost no exceptions that I could find, think the images are interesting, good, and even profound. For me, that points to a visual illiteracy that is wildly at odds with the reviewers' sometimes acute observations about Sophocles, tragedy, translation, theater, Brecht, and Hegel.Wilkinson, Joshua Marie, ed. (2015). Anne Carson: Ecstatic Lyre. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. ISBN 978-0-472-05253-0. Carson: Yes, they represent the ideal form of it. They interacted so little with each other in the process, which made it so magical. But also Ragnar Kjartansson. Currie: It's about the people we're with and then you think of something fun you could do together and in Anne's case, it always starts with a text, doesn't it? MJ: It's almost like a musical. Sandy Agustin, our choreographer, has created these choral movements that complement the narrative. One chorus is about nothing but the beauty and pain of erotic love, and all of that is interpreted through beautiful movement.

Anne Carson adds second Griffin poetry prize". Calgary Herald. 7 June 2014 . Retrieved 13 September 2020.She is one of the few writers writing in English that I would read anything she wrote." Susan Sontag Currie: The next question is what form it should take. Should it be a book or a performance? And often it becomes all of these things eventually. With Cassandra (an essay on translation) the initial form was a performance. Nox was a book that became a performance.