American Poet Louise Gluck Awarded 2020 Nobel Prize For Literature, First U.S. Woman To Win Since Toni Morrison
Jill Goldsmith Co-Business EditorAmerican poet and former U.S. Poet Laureate Louise Gluck was awarded the 2020 Nobel Prize for Literature Thursday, the world’s highest literary honor, “for her unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal,” said the Nobel Committee.She is the first American woman to win the prize since Toni Morrison in 1993 and one of only 16 women since the awards, established in the will of Alfred Nobel, began in 1901.Nobel Committee chair Anders Olsson praised Gluck’s striving for clarity.