⁍ American poet Louise Gluck won the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature.
⁍ Gluck, 77, also a multiple winner of U.S. literary awards, was ‘surprised and happy’ at the news.
⁍ She gave no immediate comment to journalists gathered outside her home.
– 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 voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal,” the Swedish Academy said, 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 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 since Toni Morrison in 1993. Gluck is the 16th woman to win the Nobel since the prizes were launched more than a century ago.
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