STOCKHOLM, Sweden — American poet Louise Glück has taken the 2020 Nobel Prize in literature “for her unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal.”
BREAKING NEWS:
— The Nobel Prize (@NobelPrize) October 8, 2020
The 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature is awarded to the American poet Louise Glück “for her unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal.”#NobelPrize pic.twitter.com/Wbgz5Gkv8C
Glück, who won the Pulitzer Prize in 1993 for “The Wild Iris” and the National Book Award in 2014, is a professor of English at Yale University. She launched her professional writing career with 1968′s “Firstborn,” CNN reported.
Glück’s prize totals more than $1.1 million, and previous winners include Ernest Hemingway, Toni Morrison, Bob Dylan, Wole Soyinka and Kazuo Ishiguro, NBC News reported.
Thrilled to hear #LouiseGluck took the poetry Nobel. In grad school, I told her if I had a choice between being a poet & being happy, I’d choose the latter, and she said, ‘Oh don’t worry. You don’t have that choice.’ Felt like a blessing. All honor to her!https://t.co/jPhHTzcC26
— Mary Karr, Author (@marykarrlit) October 8, 2020
According to CNN, she has published 12 collections of poetry and several volumes of essays on poetry.
Meanwhile, Glück’s writing is “characterized by a striving for clarity and focuses on themes of childhood and family relationships,” according to notes from Nobel Committee Chairman Anders Olsson, the network reported.
Glück was born in New York in 1943.
"The advantage of poetry over life is that poetry, if it is sharp enough, may last." — Louise Glück, winner of the @NobelPrize in Literature #Nobel2020 https://t.co/V9FcuLQiwN
— Jen Benka (@jenbenka) October 8, 2020
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