List of Books by Anne Carson

Anne Carson was born in Canada and now lives partly in Iceland. She is an acclaimed poet, essayist, translator, and classicist, and has won numerous awards, including a MacArthur, the PEN/Nabokov Award, the T. S. Eliot Prize, and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Her books Autobiography of Red and Nox were both finalists for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry. She was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2026.

2026 Winner: Anne Carson

The Nobel Prize in Literature 2026 was awarded to the Canadian author Anne Carson “for her bold and inventive oeuvre that, in playful dialogue with the classical tradition, has created new forms for contemporary literature.”

Carson’s celebrated work includes the mesmerizing Autobiography of Red and her lyrical meditation on love, Eros the Bittersweet.