Canadian poet Anne Carson has won this year’s Nobel Prize in Literature, prompting renewed interest in a body of work that can be unfamiliar to readers encountering it for the first time.
A reading guide published by The New York Times Europe sets out where newcomers can begin with Carson’s books.
The guide is aimed at readers who have not previously read Carson and are looking for an accessible route into her writing following the Nobel announcement.
For international readers following cultural developments alongside European public affairs, the award places renewed focus on a writer whose work now reaches a wider audience.