American poet Louise Gluck awarded Nobel Prize for Literature
Thursday - October 8, 2020 4:56 pm ,
Category : ART & LITERATURE
Stockholm, Oct 8 (IANS) American poet Louise Gluck was on Thursday awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for 2020 "for her unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal".The New York-born Gluck, 77, is the 16th woman to win the prestigious prize and the first American to receive it since singer-lyricist Bob Dylan in 2016. Currently an Adjunct Professor and Rosenkranz Writer in Residence at Yale University, she had won the Pulitzer Prize in 1993.
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