Editing Anne Carson (section)

=== Reception ===
Carson's first book of poetry – 1984's ''Canicula di Anna''<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Carson |first1=Anne |editor1-last=Weiss |editor1-first=Renée |editor2-last=Weiss |editor2-first=Theodore |editor2-link=Theodore Weiss (poet) |title=Canicula di Anna |journal=Quarterly Review of Literature |date=1984 |volume=25 |pages=4–39 |series=Contemporary Poetry Series 6 |location=Princeton}}</ref> – garnered her first literary prize: the ''[[Quarterly Review of Literature]]'' Betty Colladay Award.<ref name="Meyer Colladay">{{cite book |last1=Meyer |first1=Paul |title=She] ⟨Ha?⟩ She – The ''Canicula di Anna'': A Fractal Approach |date=2016 |publisher=University of Toronto |location=Toronto |page=2 |chapter=Foreword |url=https://tspace.library.utoronto.ca/bitstream/1807/76562/3/Meyer_Paul_A_201611_PhD_thesis.pdf |access-date=26 August 2020 |archive-date=31 March 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230331121258/https://tspace.library.utoronto.ca/bitstream/1807/76562/3/Meyer_Paul_A_201611_PhD_thesis.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="Jaget">{{cite journal |last1=Carson |first1=Anne |title=Jaget |journal=Chicago Review |date=1996 |volume=42 |issue=2 |pages=38–41 |doi=10.2307/25304108 |jstor=25304108 }}</ref> Acclaim for her first book of essays, ''[[Eros the Bittersweet]]'', grew in the fifteen years after it was published in 1986: the book "first stunned the classics community as a work of Greek scholarship; then it stunned the nonfiction community as an inspired return to the lyrically based essays once produced by [[Seneca the Elder|Seneca]], [[Michel de Montaigne|Montaigne]], and [[Ralph Waldo Emerson|Emerson]]; and then, and only then, deep into the 1990s, reissued as 'literature' and redesigned for an entirely new audience, it finally stunned the poets."<ref>{{cite journal |last1=D'Agata |first1=John |author-link1=John D'Agata |title=Review: Men in the Off Hours |journal=Boston Review |date=1 June 2000 |url=http://bostonreview.net/poetry/john-dagata-review-men-hours |access-date=16 September 2020 |archive-date=5 September 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190905142930/http://bostonreview.net/poetry/john-dagata-review-men-hours |url-status=live }}</ref> By the turn of the millennium, ''Eros the Bittersweet'' had also entered into the popular consciousness, voted onto the 1999 [[Modern Library]] Reader's List for the 100 Best Nonfiction books of the 20th century,<ref name="Modern Library">{{cite web |title=Modern Library: 100 Best Nonfiction |url=http://www.modernlibrary.com/top-100/100-best-nonfiction |publisher=Modern Library |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120306013605/http://www.modernlibrary.com/top-100/100-best-nonfiction |access-date=16 September 2020|archive-date=2012-03-06 }}</ref> and mentioned (along with ''[[Autobiography of Red]]'') in a 2004 episode of the television series ''[[The L Word]]''.<ref>{{cite web |last1=O'Rourke |first1=Meghan |title=Hermetic Hotties: What is Anne Carson doing on The L Word? |url=https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2004/02/why-the-l-word-gives-props-to-anne-carson.html |website=Slate |access-date=16 September 2020 |date=11 February 2004 |archive-date=30 January 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210130025003/https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2004/02/why-the-l-word-gives-props-to-anne-carson.html |url-status=live }}</ref>

Early recognition for her work also came from the [[Quebec Writers' Federation Awards]] (known as "QSPELL" until 1998), which shortlisted Carson for ''Short Talks'' in 1993 before going on to award her the honour three times between 1996 and 2001 (for ''Glass, Irony, and God'', ''Autobiography of Red'', and ''[[The Beauty of the Husband]]'').<ref name="QSPELL" /> Carson's early publications saw her shortlisted for the 1994 Journey Prize for "Water Margins",<ref name="Journey 1994" /> and brought her the 1996 [[Lannan Literary Award]] for Poetry,<ref name="Lannan Award" /> and the 1997 [[Pushcart Prize]] for her poem "Jaget".<ref name="Meyer Pushcart">{{cite book |last1=Meyer |first1=Paul |title=She] ⟨Ha?⟩ She – The ''Canicula di Anna'': A Fractal Approach |date=2016 |publisher=University of Toronto |location=Toronto |page=211 |chapter=''blue for'' (On Lecturing in Anne Carson) |url=https://tspace.library.utoronto.ca/bitstream/1807/76562/3/Meyer_Paul_A_201611_PhD_thesis.pdf |access-date=26 August 2020 |archive-date=31 March 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230331121258/https://tspace.library.utoronto.ca/bitstream/1807/76562/3/Meyer_Paul_A_201611_PhD_thesis.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="Jaget"/> In 1997, Carson was awarded a [[Rockefeller Foundation#Bellagio Center|Rockefeller Bellagio Center Fellowship]],<ref name="Bellagio" /> followed by a [[Guggenheim Fellowship]] for Poetry in 1998,<ref name="Guggenheim 1998" /> and a [[MacArthur Fellowship]] (commonly known as the "Genius Grant") in 2000.<ref name="MacArthur 2000" />

The [[National Book Critics Circle Award]] shortlisted Carson three times (for ''Autobiography of Red'' in 1998, ''[[Men in the Off Hours]]'' in 2000, and ''Nox'' in 2010),<ref name="NBCCA 1998" /><ref name="NBCCA 2000" /><ref name="NBCCA 2010" /> making her and [[Alice Munro]] the first two non-Americans to be nominated after the Award went global in 1998.<ref name="Poetry Foundation"/><ref>{{cite web |last1=Wolfe |first1=Linda |title=Remembering Alice Munro's National Book Critics Circle Award |url=https://www.bookcritics.org/2013/10/23/remembering-alice-munros-national-book-critics-circle-award/ |publisher=National Book Critics Circle |access-date=14 September 2020 |date=23 October 2013 |archive-date=24 September 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200924104757/https://www.bookcritics.org/2013/10/23/remembering-alice-munros-national-book-critics-circle-award/ |url-status=live }}</ref> She was also shortlisted for the [[Forward Prize]] in 1998 for ''Glass and God'', her first book of poetry published in the UK.<ref name="Forward 1998" /> Shortlisted for the [[T. S. Eliot Prize]] four times between 1999 and 2013, Carson won for ''The Beauty of the Husband'' in 2001 (her third consecutive nomination),<ref name="Eliot 2001" /> making her the first woman to be awarded this honour.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Kennedy |first1=Maev |title=Canadian poet becomes first woman to win TS Eliot Prize |url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2002/jan/22/books.humanities |access-date=13 September 2020 |agency=The Guardian |date=22 January 2002 |archive-date=24 June 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190624170847/https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2002/jan/22/books.humanities |url-status=live }}</ref> Carson was the first poet to be awarded the [[Griffin Poetry Prize]] (for ''Men in the Off Hours'' in 2001),<ref name="Griffin 2001" /> and the first to win the prize for a second time (for ''[[Red Doc|Red Doc>]]'' in 2013).<ref name="Griffin 2014" /><ref>{{cite news |title=Anne Carson adds second Griffin poetry prize |url=https://calgaryherald.com/entertainment/books/anne-carson-adds-second-griffin-poetry-prize |access-date=13 September 2020 |work=Calgary Herald |date=7 June 2014}}</ref> She was also a judge for the 2010 Griffin Poetry Prize.<ref name="Griffin 2010" />

Carson was appointed a Member of the [[Order of Canada]] in 2005, the announcement describing her as "a singular voice in the literature of our country".<ref name="Canada MC" /> She was awarded an [[honorary degree]] by her [[alma mater]], the [[University of Toronto]], in 2012.<ref name="U of T honor" /> She also received an honorary degree of [[Doctor of Letters]] in 2014 from the [[University of St Andrews]], where she studied for a diploma with [[Kenneth Dover]] in 1975–1976.<ref name="U of St A honour" />

In 2018, Carson was longlisted for the one-time [[New Academy Prize in Literature]], established as an alternative to the postponed 2018 Nobel Prize.<ref name="New Academy Prize">{{cite news |title=Margaret Atwood, Kim Thúy and Anne Carson nominated for alternative Nobel Prize |url=https://www.cbc.ca/books/margaret-atwood-kim-th%C3%BAy-and-anne-carson-nominated-for-alternative-nobel-prize-1.4744398 |access-date=17 October 2020 |work=CBC |date=12 July 2018 |archive-date=18 November 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221118202917/https://www.cbc.ca/books/margaret-atwood-kim-th%C3%BAy-and-anne-carson-nominated-for-alternative-nobel-prize-1.4744398 |url-status=live }}</ref> In 2020, she was awarded the [[Princess of Asturias Awards|Princess of Asturias Award]] for Literature, with the jury noting that she "has attained levels of intensity and intellectual standing that place her among the most outstanding of present-day writers".<ref name="Asturias" /> In 2021, Carson won the [[PEN/Nabokov Award|PEN/Nabokov Award for Achievement in International Literature]], honouring a body of work marked by "enduring originality and consummate craftsmanship",<ref name="PEN2021">{{cite web |title=Announcing the 2021 PEN America Literary Awards Career Achievement Winners |date=23 March 2021 |url=https://pen.org/literary-awards/2021-pen-america-literary-awards-career-achievement-winners/ |publisher=PEN America |access-date=14 April 2021 |archive-date=14 April 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210414040744/https://pen.org/literary-awards/2021-pen-america-literary-awards-career-achievement-winners/ |url-status=live }}</ref> and received the 2020 [[Governor General's Award for English-language poetry]] for ''[[Norma Jeane Baker of Troy]]'', an award she was first shortlisted for in 2001 (for ''Men in the Off Hours'').<ref name="ggaward" /> Her 2024 book, ''[[Wrong Norma]]'', was longlisted for the [[National Book Award for Poetry]].<ref>{{cite magazine |title=The 2024 National Book Awards Longlist |url=https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/2024-national-book-awards-longlist |access-date=13 September 2024 |magazine=The New Yorker |date=12 September 2024}}</ref>

Carson has also been the subject of two [[edited volume]]s: ''Anne Carson: Ecstatic Lyre'', edited by [[Joshua Marie Wilkinson]] and published by the [[University of Michigan Press]] in 2015, which is dedicated to the breadth of her works;<ref>{{cite book |editor1-last=Wilkinson |editor1-first=Joshua Marie |editor1-link=Joshua Marie Wilkinson |title=Anne Carson: Ecstatic Lyre |date=2015 |publisher=University of Michigan Press |location=Ann Arbor |isbn=978-0-472-05253-0 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KnEvBgAAQBAJ&q=Anne+Carson:+Ecstatic+Lyre}}</ref> and ''Anne Carson/ Antiquity'' ([[sic]]), edited by Laura Jansen and published by [[Bloomsbury Publishing|Bloomsbury]] in 2021, which examines Carson's classicism as it emerges in her poetry, translations, essays, and visual artistry.<ref>{{cite book |editor1-last=Jansen |editor1-first=Laura |title=Anne Carson/ Antiquity |date=2021 |publisher=Bloomsbury Academic |location=New York |isbn=978-1-350-17475-7 |url=https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/anne-carson-antiquity-9781350174771/ |access-date=2021-10-07 |archive-date=2021-10-07 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211007092150/https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/anne-carson-antiquity-9781350174771/ |url-status=live }}</ref> In 2023, ''Anne Carson: The Glass Essayist'', a critical monograph on Carson's work by Elizabeth Sarah Coles, was published by [[Oxford University Press]].<ref>{{cite book |author1-last=Coles |author1-first=Elizabeth Sarah |title=Anne Carson: The Glass Essayist |date=2023 |publisher=Oxford University Press |location=Oxford and New York |isbn=978-0-197-81333-1 |url=https://global.oup.com/academic/product/anne-carson-9780197813331?lang=en&cc=gb# |access-date=3 February 2025}}</ref> The book was awarded the Poetry Foundation's [https://www.poetryfoundation.org/awards/criticism-award Pegasus Award for Poetry Criticism] in 2024.

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]].<ref>{{cite news |last1=Ahlander |first1=Johan |title=Moving on from scandal, Swedish Academy to award two Nobel literature prizes |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-nobel-prize-literature/moving-on-from-scandal-swedish-academy-to-award-two-nobel-literature-prizes-idUSKBN1WM23V |access-date=14 September 2020 |work=Reuters |date=7 October 2019 |archive-date=15 February 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200215023028/https://www.reuters.com/article/us-nobel-prize-literature/moving-on-from-scandal-swedish-academy-to-award-two-nobel-literature-prizes-idUSKBN1WM23V |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Haynes |first1=Suyin |title=Last Year's Nobel Prize in Literature Was Canceled Over Scandal and Conflict. Can 2019's Award Mark a Comeback? |url=https://time.com/5696202/nobel-prize-literature-2019/ |publisher=Time |access-date=14 September 2020 |date=9 October 2019 |archive-date=22 September 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200922214309/https://time.com/5696202/nobel-prize-literature-2019/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Shephard |first1=Alex |title=Who Will Win the 2019 (or the 2018!) Nobel Prize in Literature? |url=https://newrepublic.com/article/155316/will-win-2019-or-2018-nobel-prize-literature |publisher=The New Republic |access-date=14 September 2020 |date=9 October 2019 |archive-date=6 October 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201006174515/https://newrepublic.com/article/155316/will-win-2019-or-2018-nobel-prize-literature |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Henley |first1=Jon |title=Two Nobel literature prizes to be awarded after sexual assault scandal |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/oct/10/nobel-prize-for-literature-to-be-awarded-twice-after-sexual-assault-scandal |access-date=14 September 2020 |work=The Guardian |date=10 October 2019 |archive-date=10 October 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191010091152/https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/oct/10/nobel-prize-for-literature-to-be-awarded-twice-after-sexual-assault-scandal |url-status=live }}</ref>