Poet and essayist, Louise Glück has made history after becoming the first American woman to win the Nobel prize for literature in 27 years.
Glück, who has many literary awards to her credit, was today (Thursday, October 8, 2020) declared winner of the 2020 Nobel Prize award in Literature.
The 77-year-old won the award for “her unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal.”
Explaining how she won the keenly contested award, Anders Olsson, the chair of the Nobel prize committee, said Glück’s voice is candid and uncompromising.
According to Olsson, Glück is full of humour and biting wit, and her 12 collections of poetry, from Faithful and Virtuous Night to The Wild Iris are characterised by a striving for clarity.
“In her poems, the self listens for what is left of its dreams and delusions, and nobody can be harder than she in confronting the illusions of the self,” Olsson said. “But even if Glück would never deny the significance of the autobiographical background, she is not to be regarded as a confessional poet.”
This new feat for Glück however makes her the 16th woman to win the award since its inception in 1901.
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