American poet Louise Glück won the Nobel Prize in Literature on Thursday for her 'candid and uncompromising' work, which looks unflinchingly and with biting humor at loss and trauma, especially in family life. She is also one of the few women honored - the 16th female Nobel Literature laureate. The Nobel Committee praised Glück 'for her unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal' in its citation. But it is also voice full of humor and biting wit,' said Anders Olsson, chairman of the Nobel literature committee. On Monday, the Nobel Committee awarded the prize for physiology and medicine for discovering the liver-ravaging hepatitis C virus.

Source: Daily Mail October 08, 2020 15:57 UTC