American Poet Louise Glück is the Winner of the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature

The Swedish Academy has awarded American Poet Louise Glück the prestigious Nobel Prize in Literature on Thursday “for her unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal.”

According to the Guardian, this makes Glück the 16th woman to win:

Selma Lagerlof, 1909

Grazia Deledda, 1926

Sigrid Undset, 1928

Pearl Buck, 1938

Gabriela Mistral, 1945

Nelly Sachs, 1966

Nadine Gordimer, 1991

Toni Morrison, 1993

Wislawa Szymborska, 1996

Elfriede Jelinek, 2004

Doris Lessing, 2007

Herta Muller, 2009

Alice Munro, 2013

Svetlana Alexievich, 2015

Olga Tokarczuk, 2018

Louise Glück, 2020

Louise Glück is the author of numerous poetry books and has won several awards.