We’ve just seen the Nobel Literature prize winnner is the Canadian poet, writer and translator Anne Carson. I have yet to read her I have her best known work Nox. She was running High in the betting for the prize this year. I like that a translator has won. I would love to know where to start with her works and which of her translations you’d sugggest.
Anne Patricia Carson
Anne Carson was born in Canada and teaches ancient Greek for a living. Her many books of poetry and translation include Antigonick, Autobiography of Red, The Beauty of the Husband, Glass, Irony and God, Norma Jeane Baker of Troy, Nox, and Wrong Norma (winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry). from her New Directions bio
