Joyelle McSweeney on Euripides’s Iphigenia Among the Taurians, translated by Anne Carson

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The Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast features a bid of conversations with past and contiguous Windham-Campbell Prize winners astir their favourite books and plays. Hosted by Michael Kelleher.

Mike Kelleher talks with Joyelle McSweeney, recipient of a 2026 Windham-Campbell Prize for Poetry, astir Anne Carson’s vibrant translation of Euripides’s Iphigenia Among the Taurians and what it means to spot a antithetic broadside of a well-known story.

Joyelle McSweeney is the writer of 10 books of poetry, play and prose, a well-known critic, and a captious steadfast of planetary lit successful translation. Winner of a Guggenheim Fellowship for Poetry (2022) among different honors, McSweeney is besides co-founder and co-editor of Action Books. She is presently Chair of the English Department and the William P. and Hazel B. White Professor of English astatine the University of Notre Dame.

The Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast is simply a programme of The Windham-Campbell Prizes, which are administered by Yale University Library’s Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.

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