American poet Louise Glück wins Nobel literature prize

STOCKHOLM: The Nobel Prize for literature has been awarded to American poet Louise Glück “for her unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal.”

The prize was announced Thursday in Stockholm by Mats Malm, the permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy. The Nobel Prize Twitter page wrote: "The American poet Louise Glück – awarded this year’s #NobelPrize in Literature – was born 1943 in New York and lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Apart from her writing she is a professor of English at Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut."

On wednesday, the 2020 Nobel Prize for chemistry was awarded to Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer Doudna “for the development of a method for genome editing.”

On Monday, the Nobel Committee awarded the prize for physiology and medicine to Americans Harvey J. Alter and Charles M. Rice and British-born scientist Michael Houghton for discovering the liver-ravaging hepatitis C virus. Tuesday's prize for physics went to Roger Penrose of Britain, Reinhard Genzel of Germany and Andrea Ghez of the United States for their breakthroughs in understanding the mysteries of cosmic black holes. The other prizes are for outstanding work in the fields of literature, peace and economics.

(With inputs from PTI)

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