American poet Louise Glück wins Nobel prize for literature
Now a professor of English at Yale University, Glück, who has won many awards, rose to prominence with her 1968 work, Firstborn
08 October 2020 - 16:54
Stockholm — American poet Louise Glück has won the 2020 Nobel prize in literature for works exploring family and childhood in an “unmistakable ... voice that, with austere beauty, makes individual existence universal”, the Swedish Academy said on Thursday.
Academy permanent secretary Mats Malm said that Glück (77), also a multiple winner of US literary awards, was “surprised and happy” at the news when it came in the early morning hours US time. She gave no immediate comment to journalists gathered outside her home in Cambridge, Massachusetts...
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