Nobel Prize

Swedish Biobibliografi Den amerikanska poeten Louise Glück föddes 1943 i New York och är bosatt i Cambridge i Massachusetts. Hon har utöver sitt skrivande också varit verksam som lärare, numera vid Yale University i New Haven, Connecticut. Hon har alltsedan sin debut 1968 med Firstborn hört till de mest prominenta lyrikerna i den amerikanska samtidslitteraturen…

English Biobibliography The American poet Louise Glück 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. She made her debut in 1968 with Firstborn, and was soon acclaimed as one of the most prominent poets in American…

Swedish Ständige sekreteraren Pressmeddelande 8 oktober 2020   Nobelpriset i litteratur år 2020 Louise Glück Nobelpriset i litteratur år 2020 tilldelas den amerikanska poeten Louise Glück ”för hennes omisskännliga poetiska röst, som med sträng skönhet gör den enskilda människans existens universell”.

English The Permanent Secretary Press release 8 October 2020   The Nobel Prize in Literature 2020 Louise Glück The Nobel Prize in Literature for 2020 is awarded to the American poet Louise Glück “for her unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal”.

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Interview with Olga Tokarczuk on 6 December 2019 during the Nobel Week in Stockholm, Sweden. Your parents were both teachers. How did that influence you? Olga Tokarczuk: It was really a very good beginning for a writer. The books were very present in our house. I saw from the beginning how my parents are discussing…

Interview with Kazuo Ishiguro on 6 December 2017 during the Nobel Week in Stockholm, Sweden. What does the Nobel Prize mean to you? Kazuo Ishiguro: Until October it was something that very great people, and in my imagination I always thought older people, won. It was not anything I would win. I am going to…

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