⁍ 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 comment to journalists gathered outside her home in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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– American poet Louise Gluck has become the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature since Toni Morrison in 1993. Gluck, 77, “is a poet of radical change and rebirth, where the leap forward is made from a deep sense of loss,” the Swedish Academy said Thursday, per Reuters. Gluck, a professor of English at Yale University, has won several literary awards, including the Pulitzer Prize in 1993 for her collection The Wild Iris. She was Poet Laureate of the United States in 2003-04, and won the US National Book Award for her collection Faithful and Virtuous Night in 2015. The AP notes that Gluck is the first American poet to win the Nobel Prize since Toni Morrison in 1993. Gluck is the 16th woman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature.