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Anne Carson’s collections of poetry include ‘Autobiography of Red’, ‘Men in the Off Hours’, ‘Nox’, ‘The Beauty of the Husband’, which won the T.S. Eliot Prize, and most recently, ‘Wrong Norma’. Her many translations of classical works include ‘An Oresteia’, ‘Grief Lessons: Four Plays by Euripides’, ‘Antigone’ and ‘Norma Jeane Baker of Troy’. A new production of her translation of Sophokles’ ‘Elektra’, starring Brie Larson, opened at the Duke of York’s Theatre in London two days after the lecture.
Anne Carson delivered her lecture as part of the LRB's Winter Lecture series at Senate House, London on 22 January 2025.
Read the lecture here: https://lrb.me/carsonwlyt
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