Over the past few days the Nobel Prizes have been announced. This year things are looking a little different across the board thanks to Covid and there has been no big ceremony. Add that to last year’s controversy for the Nobel organisation, it’s been quite disruptive for the world’s most prestigious award ceremony.
This morning, the Nobel Prize for Literature has been announced and the prestigious prize goes to Louise Glück, an American poet who has won ‘for her unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal’.
Here’s the announcement:
BREAKING NEWS:
The 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature is awarded to the American poet Louise Glück “for her unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal.”#NobelPrize pic.twitter.com/Wbgz5Gkv8C— The Nobel Prize (@NobelPrize) October 8, 2020
This announcement makes Glück the 16th woman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature since the prize’s inception. Here are the other female authors who paved the way:
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
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