“It's Not Giving Homer”: Lauren Oyler and Tobias Haberkorn on Anne Carson

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Anne Carson won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Literature “for her bold and inventive oeuvre that, in playful dialogue with the classical tradition, has created new forms for contemporary literature.” Born in Canada in 1950, Carson is a classicist, translator and poet. Her works have been translated around the world, and she has won numerous awards including a Guggenheim Fellowship and a MacArthur Genius grant.

In this conversation Lauren Oyler and Tobias Haberkorn talk about what Carson does to the Greek myth, how easy it is to lose track of what’s real while reading her, how she was inspired by the Brontës and her recent essay on writing with Parkinson’s.

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