Sophokles Antigone
$26.05
- Paperback
72 pages
- Release Date
20 August 2026
Summary
Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature 2026
“A marvellous new translation by Anne Carson that crackles with canny colloquialism and insight” - *Arts Desk*
When her dead brother is decreed a traitor, Antigone refuses to leave his body unburied. Defying her uncle’s governance she forges ahead with the funeral alone, placing personal allegiance before politics, a tenacious act that will trigger a cycle of destruction.
T.S. Eliot Prize-w…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781350600379 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1350600377 |
| Author: | Sophocles, Anne Carson |
| Publisher: | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Imprint: | Methuen Drama |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 72 |
| Release Date: | 20 August 2026 |
| Weight: | 74g |
| Dimensions: | 12mm x 128mm x 194mm |
| Series: | Modern Classics |
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Critics Review
A marvellous new translation by Anne Carson that crackles with canny colloquialism and insight * Arts Desk *
Carson has won many awards for her translations of Greek and Latin verse […] she writes a beautiful choral ode, but comes into her own in these sharp exchanges * Guardian *
Sophocles
Anne Carson is a MacArthur Fellow. She has received the Lannan Prize, the T.S. Eliot Prize, the Pushcart Prize, and the Griffin Poetry Prize (twice-awarded). She was also an Anna-Maria Kellen Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin, Germany.
Carson adapted The Bakkhai for the Almeida in 2015. The Classic Stage Company in New York has produced An Oresteia, a trilogy adapted from Aeschylus’ Agamemnon, Sophokles’ Electra, and Euripides’ Orestes. Norma Jeanne Baker of Troy, a version of Euripides’ Helen, has been staged at The Shed in New York. An opera version of H of H Playbook, composed by Bruce Dessner, will be produced in Basel in 2027.
She won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2026.
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