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American Louise Glück is the winner of this year’s Nobel Prize for Literature, “for her unmistakable poetic voice that, with austere beauty, makes individual existence universal,” the Swedish Academy announced Thursday.
Glück is considered one of the poets Outstanding Contemporary American Literature.
The Academy said the awardee had been “surprised” when she received the phone call.
Since its debut in 1968 with Firstborn, Glück has published twelve collections of poetry and some essays on the genre.
Born in New York in 1943, she is also a professor of English at Yale University in Connecticut.
He has received several prestigious awards, including the Pulitzer Prize for his collection of poems. The Wild Iris (“The wild iris”) in 1993 and the National Book Award (2014).
His poetry focuses on the painful reality of the human being, and addresses topics such as death, childhood and family life.
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Louise Glück is considered one of the most prominent poets in contemporary American literature.
Glück “seeks the universal, and for this he inspired by classical myths and motifs, present in most of his works, “added the Academy.
Previous controversies
The last two editions of this award have been surrounded by controversy.
Last year the decision to award the Nobel Prize for Literature to Austrian Peter Handke generated a veritable avalanche of criticism
The screenwriter, novelist and poet is a highly controversial figure for his support of the Serbs during the Yugoslavian War in the 1990s.
In 2019, the 2018 Nobel Prize for Literature was also awarded. And the fact is that, the previous year, for the first time since 1943, the Swedish Academy did not award the prize due to a scandal of sexual abuse and other complaints that caused the resignation of seven of the 18 members of the jury.
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Olga Tokarczuk and Peter Handke, winners of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2018 and 2019 respectively.
The Polish writer Olga Tokarczuk was the winner of the 2018 edition.
Awards week
The week of the Nobel Prizes began this Monday with the Medicine Prize, which this year fell to the researchers Michael Houghton, Harvey J. Alter and Charles M. Rice for the discovery of the hepatitis C virus.
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On Tuesday it was the turn for the Nobel Prize in Physics, which went to Roger Penrose, Reinhard Genzel and Andrea Ghez for his findings on black holes; while on Wednesday Chemistry was awarded to Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer A. Doudna for developing a method to edit the genome
Peace will be announced on Friday and Economy will be announced next Monday.
All the awards are given on December 10, the anniversary of the death of the founder, Alfred Nobel, in parallel events in Stockholm, for scientists, Literature and Economics, while the Peace is held in Oslo.
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