Published 17:12 IST, October 8th 2020

Nobel Prize in Literature 2020: Louise Glück awarded for ‘her unmistakable poetic voice'

American poet Louise Glück has won Nobel Prize in Literature “for her unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal”.

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bel Prize in Literature for 2020 has been awarded to American poet Louise Glück “for her unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal”. Swedish Acemy anunced much-coveted prize on October 8, saying works by 2020 Literature Laureate are characterized by a striving for clarity.

“Childhood and family life, close relationship with parents and siblings, is a matic that has remained central with her,” acemy said in a statement.

Born in 1943 in New York, America poet me her debut in 1968 with Firstborn and was soon acclaimed as one of most prominent poets in American contemporary literature. She has received several prestigious awards, among m Pulitzer Prize (1993) and National Book Award (2014). Glück has published twelve collections of poetry and some volumes of essays on poetry. 

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Glück is a professor of English at Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut. Anders Olsson, Chairman of bel Committee, said that bel laureate is t only engd by shifting conditions of life, she is also a poet of rical change and rebirth, where leap forward is me from a deep sense of loss. 

“In her poems, self listens for what is left of its dreams and delusions, and body can be harder than she in confronting illusions of self,” statement re.

Swedish Acemy highlighted masterly collection in ‘Aver’, a visionary interpretation of myth of Persephone’s descent into hell in captivity of Hes, god of death. acemy also recalled spectacular achievement of Glück in her latest collection, ‘Faithful and Virtuous Night’ (2014).

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“She writes oneiric, narrative poetry recalling memories and travels, only to hesitate and pause for new insights. world is disenthralled, only to become magically present once again,” Olsson stated.

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17:13 IST, October 8th 2020