Stockholm: The Nobel Prize in literature was awarded to US poet Louise Glück in Stockholm on Thursday. In a statement released by the Swedish Academy, the poet has been recognised for her “unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal.”
Glück is one of America’s leading poets, the 77-year-old writer has won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. Born in New York City in 1943, She grew up on Long Island and attended Columbia University. She has taught poetry in many universities, and is currently an professor of English at Yale University.
She is the fourth woman to win the prize for literature since 2010, and only the 16th since the Nobel prizes were first awarded in 1901. The last American to win was Bob Dylan in 2016.
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