The 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature has been awarded to the American poet Louise Glück. The Royal Swedish Academy while announcing the award said that Glück's "unmistakable poetic voice with austere beauty makes individual existence universal."
Glück a poet and an essayist has been decorated with prestigious awards like National Humanities Medal, Pulitzer Prize, National Book Award, National Book Critics Circle Award, and Bollingen Prize, among others.
Her most famous works include, The Triumph of Achilles and The Wild Iris.