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(CNN Spanish) – American poet Louise Glück was awarded the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature “for her unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty universalizes individual existence,” the Swedish Academy announced on Thursday.
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The 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature is awarded to the American poet Louise Glück “for her unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal.”#Nobel Prize pic.twitter.com/Wbgz5Gkv8C– The Nobel Prize (@NobelPrize) October 8, 2020
Glück is Professor of English at Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut. He debuted in 1968 with “Firstborn” and won the Pulitzer Prize in 1993 and the National Book Prize in 2014.
He has published 12 collections of poetry and several volumes of essays on poetry. His writing is characterized by an effort for clarity and focuses on issues of childhood and family relationships, according to the notes of Anders Olsson, chairman of the Nobel Committee.
“Snowdrops,” from his 1992 Pulitzer-winning collection “The Wild Iris,” describes the miraculous return to life after winter. “Avernus” (2006) is an interpretation of the myth of the descent of Persephone into hell in the captivity of Hades, the god of death. His latest collection is “Faithful and Virtuous Night” in 2014.
This year’s Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer A. Doudna on Wednesday. They discovered the CRISPR / Cas9 gene editing tool to “rewrite the code of life.”
On Tuesday, Roger Penrose, Reinhard Genzel and Andrea Ghez received the Nobel Prize in Physics for their discoveries about black holes.
The Nobel Prize in Medicine was awarded to Harvey J. Alter, Michael Houghton and Charles M. Rice on Monday for the discovery of the hepatitis C virus, leading to the development of tests and treatments.
The Nobel Peace Prize will be announced on Friday and the Economic Sciences Prize on Monday.
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