2020 Nobel Prize in Literature

The 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature has been awarded to Louise Glück. The prize was announced by the Swedish Academy in Stockholm on 8 October 2020.

The citation

The citation reads: "for her unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal".

The laureate

Louise Glück was born in 1943 in New York, the United States.

Why it matters

The American poet is known for collections including The Wild Iris, which won the Pulitzer Prize.

The prize

The prize is worth 10 million Swedish kronor. It will be presented at a ceremony in Stockholm on 10 December, the anniversary of the death of Alfred Nobel, the Swedish inventor of dynamite whose will founded the prizes in 1895.