Nobel Prize in Literature 2020 awarded to American poet Louise Glück

The Nobel Prize for Literature has been awarded to Louise Glück after several years of scandals and controversy for the world’s pre-eminent literary accolade.

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Gluck, 77, was honoured “for her unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal,” the Academy said.

A professor at Yale University, Glück made her debut in 1968 with her collection titled ‘Firstborn’. She is seen as one of the most prominent poet and essayist in American contemporary literature.

She won the Pulitzer Prize in 1993 for her collection The Wild Iris and the National Book Award for her latest collection, Faithful and Virtuous Night, in 2014.

She is the fourth woman to win the Nobel Literature Prize in the past decade — after Olga Tokarczuk, Svetlana Alexievich and Alice Munro — and only the 16th since the Nobel prizes were first awarded in 1901.