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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 608,289 page views. Her biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Anne Carson is the 4,282nd most popular writer (up from 4,400th in 2019), the 308th most popular biography from Canada (up from 337th in 2019) and the 18th most popular Canadian Writer.

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  • 610k

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  • 47.73

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 25

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.61

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.27

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Anne Carson ranks 4,282 out of 5,755Before her are C. L. Moore, Jean Tardieu, Jules Lemaître, James Lee Burke, François Tristan l'Hermite, and Walter Kempowski. After her are Yōko Ogawa, Mato Kósyk, Georges Eekhoud, Pierre Michon, Elizabeth Gilbert, and Susanna Tamaro.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1950, Anne Carson ranks 289Before her are Robert Z'Dar, John Diehl, Ntfombi of Eswatini, Toshiko Fujita, Jorma Ollila, and Willie Colón. After her are Jeff Conaway, Seiki Ichihara, Ronald McNair, Arturo Márquez, Phil McGraw, and Iris Berben.

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In Canada

Among people born in Canada, Anne Carson ranks 308 out of 1,350Before her are Edward Belcher (1799), Bob Rock (1954), Julie Payette (1963), Kenneth Welsh (1942), Jacques Plante (1929), and Manly P. Hall (1901). After her are Shyla Stylez (1982), Edward Routh (1831), Brock Chisholm (1896), Edge (1973), Robin Sharma (1965), and Geddy Lee (1953).

Among WRITERS In Canada

Among writers born in Canada, Anne Carson ranks 18Before her are Naomi Klein (1970), Mordecai Richler (1931), Gordon R. Dickson (1923), Anne Hébert (1916), Harold Russell (1914), and Steven Erikson (1959). After her are Robin Sharma (1965), Robertson Davies (1913), Nancy Huston (1953), Grant Allen (1848), Michel Tremblay (1942), and Wyndham Lewis (1882).