American poet Louise Gluck awarded 2020 Nobel Prize for literature

Glück, who was born in New York in 1943, has written numerous poetry collections, many of which deal with the challenges of family life and growing older

The Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded on Thursday to Louise Gluck , one of America’s most celebrated poets, “for her unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal.”

The award was announced at a news conference in Stockholm.

Gluck , who was born in New York in 1943, has written numerous poetry collections, many of which deal with the challenges of family life and growing older. They include The Wild Iris, for which she won a Pulitzer Prize in 1993, and Faithful and Virtuous Night, about mortality and grief, from 2014. She was named the United States’ poet