The winner of this year’s Nobel Prize in Literature is Canadian poet and essayist Anne Carson, who was honoured “for her bold and inventive oeuvre that, in playful dialogue with the classical tradition, has created new forms for contemporary literature”. Carson’s work often blends verse, prose, dialogue and translation in a genre-defying mix. The 76-year-old is widely known for her translations of classical Greek literature, which heavily influences her work which ranges from opera librettos to...