American Poet Louise Gluck Wins Nobel Literature Prize

Poet Louise Gluck won the Nobel Prize in Literature for “her unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal”

Mats Malm, Permanent Secretary of the Swedish Academy, gives the microphone to Anders Olsson, member of the academy, during the announcement of 2020 Nobel Prize in literature at Borshuset in Stockholm, Sweden on Oct. 8, 2020. TT News Agency/Henrik Montgomery/via Reuters

STOCKHOLM—American poet Louise Gluck has won the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature for “her unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal,” the Swedish Academy said on Thursday.

Academy Permanent Secretary Mats Malm said Gluck was “surprised and happy” at the news despite receiving it in the early morning North American time.