The winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature is the American poet Louise Glück

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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

He is famous for his works on childhood and family life issues.

The prize was awarded to him for a clear poetic voice that makes individual existence universal in strict beauty.

L. Glueck, 77, famous for his works on childhood and family life, won the 1993 Pulitzer Prize for his poetry collection The Wild Iris, and in 2014 received the National Book Prize.

This Yale University English professor “seeks the universal, and in that sense draws inspiration from classical myths and motifs found in most of her work,” the academy said.

The report says Gluek’s 2006 book of poetry “Avernus” is “a perfect collection, a visionary interpretation of Persephone’s descent into hell, the god of death, Hades.”

Instead of the traditional ceremony – webcast

In a normal year, the laureates would withdraw their award from King Carl XVI Gustaf during an official ceremony in Stockholm on December 10 to mark the anniversary of Alfred Nobel’s death. Inventor A. Nobel, who died in 1896, established these awards in his will.

This year, however, that service ceremony was canceled due to a coronavirus pandemic. It will be replaced by a television ceremony that will show how the prizes will be presented to the winners in their countries.

Peace and economic bonuses remain unknown

Last year, the winners of the Nobel Prize in Literature for 2018 and 2019 were immediately announced: Olga Tokarczuk and Peter Handke. Then, the decision of the Swedish Academy to award the literary prize to the Austrian writer Peter Handke caused a great wave of criticism. Many wondered why this prestigious award was given to a writer known for his support of Serbian leader Slobodan Milosevic during the Balkan wars and denigration of the atrocities committed by his forces.

The Academy, for its part, defended his choice, explaining that it was adopted solely for literary merit and not for political reasons.

This year’s Nobel Prize in Medicine and Physiology was won by Harvey J. Alter, Michel Houghton, and Charles M. Rice for the discovery of the hepatitis C virus.

This year, two scientists received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry: Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer A. Doudna. These scientists have developed one of the most precise tools for genetic engineering: CRISPR-cas9 gene editing technology. This technology of correctly interrupted concentrated short palindromic repeats – with certain “scissors” – can remove mutated genes from animals, plants and microorganisms and replace them with repaired genes. Virginijus Šikšnis, a researcher at Vilnius University, who carried out similar research and did a lot in this area, was not among the winners.

The winners of the Nobel Prize in Physics were Roger Penrose for discovering that the formation of black holes was already foreseen in the general theory of relativity, and Reinhard Genzel together with Andrea Ghez for discovering a supermassive black hole in the center of our galaxy.

Tomorrow it will be announced who will receive this year’s Nobel Peace Prize, and the winner of the Nobel Prize in economics will be announced on Monday.

The prestigious award consists of a gold medal and 10 million. Swedish crowns (959 thousand euros).