⁍ American poet Louise Gluck won the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature.

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⁍ Gluck, 77, was ‘surprised and happy’ at the news when it came in the early morning hours U.S. time.

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⁍ She gave no immediate comment to journalists gathered outside her home in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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– American poet Louise Gluck has won the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature, Reuters reports. According to the AP, the 77-year-old Gluck is a professor of English at Yale University and was Poet Laureate of the United States in 2003-04. Gluck is the first American to win the Nobel Prize in Literature since Toni Morrison in 1993. Gluck is the first American to win the prize since Toni Morrison in 1993. Gluck’s work explores family and childhood in an “unmistakable voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal,” the Swedish Academy says. Gluck is the first American to win the Nobel Prize in Literature since Toni Morrison in 1993. Gluck’s work “has managed to feel urgently contemporary and yet simultaneously timeless,” Oxford University professor Erica McAlpine tells Reuters. “The occasional bleakness of her voice speaks especially well to our present moment, and yet her poetry has always been intimately connected to the long lyric tradition behind it.”