American poet Louise Glück awarded 2020 Nobel Prize in literature

STOCKHOLM, Sweden — American poet Louise Glück has taken the 2020 Nobel Prize in literature “for her unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal.”

Glück, who won the Pulitzer Prize in 1993 for “The Wild Iris” and the National Book Award in 2014, is a professor of English at Yale University. She launched her professional writing career with 1968′s “Firstborn,” CNN reported.

Glück’s prize totals more than $1.1 million, and previous winners include Ernest Hemingway, Toni Morrison, Bob Dylan, Wole Soyinka and Kazuo Ishiguro, NBC News reported.

According to CNN, she has published 12 collections of poetry and several volumes of essays on poetry.

Meanwhile, Glück’s writing is “characterized by a striving for clarity and focuses on themes of childhood and family relationships,” according to notes from Nobel Committee Chairman Anders Olsson, the network reported.

Glück was born in New York in 1943.

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