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Anne Carson

1950 - Today

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Anne Patricia Carson (born June 21, 1950) is a Canadian poet, essayist, translator, classicist, and professor. Trained at the University of Toronto, Carson has taught classics, comparative literature, and creative writing at universities across the United States and Canada since 1979, including McGill, Michigan, NYU, and Princeton. With more than twenty books of writings and translations published to date, Carson was awarded Guggenheim and MacArthur Fellowships, has won the Lannan Literary Award, two Griffin Poetry Prizes, the T. S. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Anne Carson has received more than 676,548 page views. Her biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Anne Carson is the 2,957th most popular writer (up from 4,269th in 2019), the 175th most popular biography from Canada (up from 307th in 2019) and the 8th most popular Canadian Writer.

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  • 680k

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  • 53.10

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 27

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.22

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.09

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Anne Carson ranks 2,957 out of 7,302. Before her are Hervé Bazin, Paul Gallico, Tudor Arghezi, Yrsa Sigurðardóttir, Étienne Pivert de Senancour, and Maciej Kazimierz Sarbiewski. After her are Jean Echenoz, José Martínez Ruiz, Morris West, James Rollins, Angela Carter, and Louise Weiss.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1950, Anne Carson ranks 186. Before her are Angelo Branduardi, Geraldine James, David Cassidy, Tatjana Ždanoka, Adrian Năstase, and Michio Ashikaga. After her are Roland Matthes, Daria Nicolodi, Ángel María Villar, Assef Shawkat, Jan Zajíc, and Yuki Fushimi.

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In Canada

Among people born in Canada, Anne Carson ranks 175 out of 1,622. Before her are Emily Carr (1871), Napoleon Sarony (1821), Alfred Aho (1941), Nelly Furtado (1978), Arthur Jeffrey Dempster (1886), and Ian Hacking (1936). After her are Viola Desmond (1914), Elisha Cuthbert (1982), Stana Katic (1978), Alanis Morissette (1974), Shulamith Firestone (1945), and John van 't Schip (1963).

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Among WRITERS In Canada

Among writers born in Canada, Anne Carson ranks 8. Before her are Alice Munro (1931), Margaret Atwood (1939), Saul Bellow (1915), Brian Tracy (1944), A. E. van Vogt (1912), and David Morrell (1943). After her are Shulamith Firestone (1945), Gabrielle Roy (1909), Mazo de la Roche (1879), Louise Penny (1958), David Shore (1959), and Gordon R. Dickson (1923).

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