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- This year’s Nobel Prize in Literature goes to the American poet Louise Glück.
- This was announced by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm.
- The 77-year-old will be honored “for her unmistakable poetic voice,” with which she universalizes individual existence “with strict beauty,” said the academy’s permanent secretary, Mats Malm.
The new Nobel laureate was born in New York on April 22, 1943 and lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She is a professor at Yale University in New Haven.
His first volume of poetry (“Firstborn”) was published in 1968. It was followed by another eleven volumes of poetry and some essays. The poetry collections “Averno” (2007) were published in German, in which he addresses the game of mythology and man, and “Wilde Iris” (2008) on the cycle of nature and human existence.
Multiple award-winning poet
His previous awards include the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1993, the National Book Prize for Poetry in 2014, and the Tomas Tranströmerpriset this year. Glück was temporarily chairman of the literary committee of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and also of the leadership circle of the Academy of American Poets.
The writer once told the Washington Post that her favorite authors included TS Eliot and William Carlos Williams. According to the newspaper, Glück was married twice and has a son.
This time, the Nobel laureates are endowed with ten million Swedish crowns (about one million francs) per category, one million crowns more than last year. At the time, the academy had awarded two awards because the 2018 award was canceled due to a widespread scandal involving academician Katarina Frostenson, who has since left the academy, and her husband Jean-Claude Arnault.
That is why Olga Tokarczuk from Poland was subsequently named the 2018 award winner last year, while Austrian Peter Handke received the 2019 award. Due to Handke’s controversial attitudes towards the Yugoslavia conflict, her selection subsequently drew criticism and protests.
Nobel Prize winners are officially honored on December 10, the anniversary of the death of prize donor and dynamite inventor Alfred Nobel. The lavish award ceremonies, in which honorees typically receive their medals and diplomas, will not take place this year due to the corona pandemic.
The award ceremony at the Stockholm Concert Hall will be replaced by a televised award at the town hall, in which the laureates from their homeland will connect.
In the last three days, Nobel prizes have been announced in the scientific categories of medicine, physics and chemistry.
Nobel Prize winners in literature since 2010
