Louise Glück awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature 2020
8 October 2020
On Thursday 8 October 2020 The Nobel Prize in Literature for 2020 was
awarded to the American poet Louise Glück
"for her unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty
makes individual existence universal".
For comment on the award, see Alison Flood in The Guardian 8 October 2020 and Thea
Hawlin in The Independent 9 October 2020.
See also the statement on the Carcanet website. Carcanet has been Louise
Glück's UK publisher since The Wild Iris, published
in 1996 through to Faithful and Virtuous Night in
2014.