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| Nobel Prize in Literature 2020 awarded to American poet Louise Glück |
Nobel Prize in Literature 2020 awarded to American poet Louise Glück
Nobel Prize in Literature 2020: The Nobel Prize in Literature 2020 was awarded to Louise Glück "for her unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal."
The Nobel Prize in Literature 2020
- Louise Glück
Louise Glück made her debut in 1968 with Firstborn, and was soon acclaimed as one of the most prominent poets in American contemporary literature.
She has published twelve collections of poetry and some volumes of essays on poetry.
In one of her most lauded collections, The Wild Iris (1992), for which she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize, she describes the miraculous return of life after winter in the poem ”Snowdrops”.
The Nobel Prize in Literature is awarded by The Swedish Academy, Stockholm, Sweden.
About Nobel Prize in Literature 2020 Winner Louise Glück
The American poet Louise Glück was born 1943 in New York and lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Apart from her writing she is a professor of English at Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut.
She made her debut in 1968 with Firstborn, and was soon acclaimed as one of the most prominent poets in American contemporary literature.
She has received several prestigious awards, among them the Pulitzer Prize (1993) and the National Book Award (2014).
Facts on the Nobel Prize in Literature: Did you know?
113 Nobel Prizes in Literature have been awarded since 1901.
4 Literature Prizes have been shared between two persons.
16 women have been awarded the Literature Prize so far.
41 years was the age of the youngest Literature Laureate ever, Rudyard Kipling, best known for The Jungle Book.
88 years was the age of the oldest Literature Laureate ever, Doris Lessing, when she was awarded the prize in 2007.
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