This year's Nobel Prize in Literature has been awarded to American poet Louise Glück. Glück was known for "her unmistakable poetic voice, which with a strict beauty makes individual existence universal," said the Swedish Nobel Academy. The academy added that she was "surprised" when she received their call.
Glück, born in 1943 in New York, lives in Massachusetts and is also a professor of English at Yale University. Glück is the fourth woman to win the Literature Prize since 2010, and the 16th since the Nobel Prize was first awarded in 1901. The last American to win was Bob Dylan in 2016.
Gluck won the Pulitzer Prize in 1993 for her collection "The Wild Iris" and the 2014 American National Book Award. Her other awards include the 2001 Bollingen Prize for Poetry, the Wallace Stevens Prize, awarded in 2008, and a National Medal of Humanities in 2015.
The academy said her book "Averno" was a "masterpiece collection." Nobel Prize committee chairman Anders Olsson described the poet's voice as "sincere and uncompromising," which is "full of humor and biting wit."
Source: BBC
