This year's Nobel Prize for Literature has been awarded to the US poet Louise Glück

This year's Nobel Prize for Literature has been awarded to the US poet Louise Glück

By Onlykhabar News Media Thu 8 October, 2020 ( about 5 years ago ) 🎤438 Viewersinternational

Last year's choice of Austrian novelist Peter Handke led to wide criticism.

Among her other most famous poetry collections are Faithful and Virtuous Night and The Wild Iris, which won her the Pulitzer Prize in 1993. The prize is given to the person who has "produced in the field of literature the most outstanding work in an ideal direction". Normally, winners receive their Nobel from King Carl XVI Gustaf at a formal ceremony in Stockholm on 10 December. 

But the pandemic means it has been replaced with a televised ceremony showing the laureates receiving their awards in their home countries. Handke was a known supporter of the Serbs during the 1990s Yugoslav war and spoke at the funeral of Serb Leader Slobodan Milosevic, who was accused of genocide and other war crimes. 

By Onlykhabar News Media Thu 8 October, 2020 🎤438 Viewersinternational
This year's Nobel Prize for Literature has been awarded to the US poet Louise Glück

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