Seventy-seven-year-old poet Louise Glück has won many prestigious awards in the past, including the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. The native of New York is considered one of the most talented contemporary poets of the United States.
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Louise Glück received the most prestigious award in the field of literature for “her flawless poetic voice, which with its simple beauty makes individual being universal”.
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She has published 12 collections of poetry as well as two essay books on poetry. In her work, the influence of autobiographical writing and also the rules of psychoanalysis is noticeable.
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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
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Controversy has been associated with the Nobel Prize for Literature for many years. In 2016, the entire literary world discussed whether Bob Dylan, who is better known in the music world, deserves the award.
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Three years ago, the Swedish Academy, which selects the laureates, struggled with sexual harassment scandals. In 2018, the announcement of the winner did not take place. The following year, two winners were due to this – the Polish writer Olga Tokarczuková and the Austrian author Peter Handke.
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It was Handke’s choice that aroused another “crack”. In the 1990s, Peter Handke publicly supported former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic, who was accused of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity. In 2006, the writer was even at his funeral, where he also gave a mourning speech.
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For many years, the Nobel Prize for Literature has been more of a political than a literary topic. Perhaps with the exception of the Nobel Peace Prize, it is one of the most controversial and debated awards ever. However, it is true that, according to Alfred Nobel, the founder of the award, he wanted the winners of his awards to be beyond his field: “to those who made the greatest contribution to humanity last year,” Nobel wrote in his last will in 1895.
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