admin American poet Louise Gluck has bagged the 2020 Nobel Prize in literature. Her work “unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence wonderful” is what impressed the world, the Swedish academy in Stockholm said in a statement on Thursday.
Having received the news early morning in accordance with North American time, Academy Permanent Secretary Mats Malm exclaimed that she was surprised and happy after hearing the news.
Gluck is presently a professor at Yale University currently 77 years of age. She made her debut with ‘Firstborn’, and is seen as an inspiration and one of the most prominent poets in contemporary literature.
Her poetry is often associated with ‘a striving for clarity’ with a focus on childhood, family life, and close relationships between parents and siblings, the Academy said.
The academy also listed that in her work, ‘the self listens for what is left of its dreams and delusions, and nobody can be harder than she in confronting the illusions of self.’
Alfred Nobel who was a wealthy businessman and dynamite inventor left these awards in his will and they have been awarded since 1901 for achievements in all spectrums of life, namely science, literature and peace.
However, this particular Nobel prize has been in controversy ever since its inception, may it be the 2019 case where the Academy decided to exceptionally name two winners after the postponement of the 2018 Nobel prize given the sexual assault allegations that involved one its members.
The Academy which chose to remain secretive decided to have more transparency of the entire process by changing its bills after 234 years.
This year however, the process happened smoothly and the winner involved no controversy whatsoever.
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