# Anne Carson — a declared absence: the books from Eros the Bittersweet to The Gender of Sound, and the translations from the Greek

Anne Carson (b. 1950), awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature on 8 October 2026, is entered as wanted. She is living, and her works open seventy years after her death. They stand on the shelf's own ground: If Not, Winter translates the Sappho the shelf holds as fragment 31 (01/10), Autobiography of Red is built on Stesichorus, Economy of the Unlost reads Simonides with Celan.

Rights: Anne Carson; the first publishers named.

| Author | Work | First publisher | Year | Opens |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Anne Carson | Eros the Bittersweet | Princeton University Press | 1986 | seventy years after the author's death (the author is living) |
| Anne Carson | Short Talks | Brick Books | 1992 | seventy years after the author's death (the author is living) |
| Anne Carson | Glass, Irony, and God | New Directions | 1995 | seventy years after the author's death (the author is living) |
| Anne Carson | Plainwater | Alfred A. Knopf | 1995 | seventy years after the author's death (the author is living) |
| Anne Carson | Autobiography of Red | Alfred A. Knopf | 1998 | seventy years after the author's death (the author is living) |
| Anne Carson | Economy of the Unlost | Princeton University Press | 1999 | seventy years after the author's death (the author is living) |
| Anne Carson | Men in the Off Hours | Alfred A. Knopf | 2000 | seventy years after the author's death (the author is living) |
| Anne Carson | The Beauty of the Husband | Alfred A. Knopf | 2001 | seventy years after the author's death (the author is living) |
| Anne Carson (trans.) | If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho | Alfred A. Knopf | 2002 | seventy years after the author's death (the author is living) |
| Anne Carson | Decreation | Alfred A. Knopf | 2005 | seventy years after the author's death (the author is living) |
| Anne Carson (trans.) | Grief Lessons: Four Plays by Euripides | New York Review Books | 2006 | seventy years after the author's death (the author is living) |
| Anne Carson (trans.) | An Oresteia | Farrar, Straus and Giroux | 2009 | seventy years after the author's death (the author is living) |
| Anne Carson | Nox | New Directions | 2010 | seventy years after the author's death (the author is living) |
| Anne Carson | Antigonick | New Directions | 2012 | seventy years after the author's death (the author is living) |
| Anne Carson | Red Doc> | Alfred A. Knopf | 2013 | seventy years after the author's death (the author is living) |
| Anne Carson | Float | Alfred A. Knopf | 2016 | seventy years after the author's death (the author is living) |
| Anne Carson | Norma Jeane Baker of Troy | Oberon Books | 2019 | seventy years after the author's death (the author is living) |
| Anne Carson | H of H Playbook | New Directions | 2021 | seventy years after the author's death (the author is living) |
| Anne Carson | Wrong Norma | New Directions | 2024 | seventy years after the author's death (the author is living) |
| Anne Carson | The Gender of Sound | Spiral House | 2025 | seventy years after the author's death (the author is living) |

Wanted: whatever Carson or her publishers release under an open licence. The Greek she translates is partly on the shelf already, and the rest is open: Stesichorus, Simonides, Euripides, Aeschylus and Sophocles in their Greek, QUEUED.

Beside Sappho (01/10), Catullus (01/02), Longinus (01/06) and the literary papyri (01/11).

This seat holds no text of the works it names. The dates follow the terms stated; they are not legal advice.