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The 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to the American poet Louise Glück, “for her unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal.”
Glück is 77 years old and one of the best known contemporary American poets. Born in New York, she has Jewish-Hungarian origins and teaches English literature at Yale University. In 1993 he won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry with his collection of poems. The wild iris; in 2014 the National Book Award, another major American literary award. He has written 12 collections of poems, as well as several collections of literary critic essays. His tenth collection of poems was recently published in Italian at the beginning of the year, Hell, which was released in the United States in 2006. It contains a rewrite of the Greek myth of Persephone. It was published by the Dante & Descartes bookstore in Naples, which also has a small publishing business.
Greek mythology in general is one of the recurring themes of his works (other characters mentioned are Dido and Eurydice, as Persephone betrayed the woman), as well as childhood, and family relationships, in particular with parents and siblings and sisters. As Anders Olsson, chairman of the committee that awarded her the Nobel, explained, “she would never deny the importance of the autobiographical context in her works, but she should not be considered a confessional poet”, like Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton.
The Nobel Prize for Literature is one of the most prestigious literary prizes and has been awarded since 1901. Glück is the sixteenth woman to receive it, after the Polish writer Olga Tokarczuk, winner of the 2018 prize. Instead, it was from 2011 that The Nobel Prize in Literature was not awarded to a poet who is primarily concerned with poetry as it is commonly understood: that year it was won by the Swede Tomas Tranströmer. The last American to win the award before Glück was Bob Dylan, in 2016: he is also a poet, although it is not the first word that would be used to describe him. One last statistic: in the last ten years, with Glück, there have been four Nobel laureates for English literature.
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