Sunday 11 October 2020

Louise Glück won Nobel Prize for Literature

 Louise Glück won Nobel Prize for Literature

The 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature has been awarded to the US poet Louise Glück  

She is the first American to win the prestigious award since Bob Dylan was honored in 2016.

 Toni Morrison was the last American to receive the prize before him, winning in 1993.

Glück, the 16th woman to win the literature prize, has published 12 collections of poetry and several volumes of essays on poetry.

Gluck previously won the Pulitzer Prize in 1993 for her collection The Wild Iris, and the National Book Award in 2014.

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