Louise Glck wins Nobel Prize in literature
Source: Washington Post
Louise Glück has won the 2020 Nobel Prize in literature, the Swedish Academy announced Thursday. The writer, 77, born in New York, is one of the most celebrated poets in America. She has previously won a Pulitzer Prize, a National Book Award, a National Book Critics Circle Award and a Bollingen Prize. She was the Poet Laureate of the United States from 2003 to 2004. Before today, only 15 women have ever won the Nobel Prize in Literature, since it was first awarded in 1901. The literature prize is worth approximately $1,125,000. Today’s announcement may help put the literature committee's past troubles behind it.
In 2017, the husband of one of the academy’s members was accused of sexual assault and subsequently convicted of rape. That scandal led to a host of related accusations involving fraud, bad management and widespread misogyny. In the ensuing administrative battle, the permanent secretary of the academy was forced out, several members resigned, and the Nobel Foundation, which funds the award, demanded changes. Structural problems with the committee were considered so intractable that the 2018 literature prize was postponed till 2019.
But whatever improvements were made during that hiatus felt irrelevant almost as soon as the committee returned. Last year’s literature prize was awarded to Peter Handke, a controversial Austrian writer known for his sympathy for the late Yugoslavia leader Slobodan Milosevic, who was accused of genocide. To many people around the world, honoring Handke felt like a shameful betrayal of the committee’s ideals.
The only living U.S. winner of the Nobel Prize in literature is the musician Bob Dylan, who received the award in 2016.
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They were all running about 1 hour late this morning (including the Nobel announcement) -
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The 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature 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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7:00 AM · Oct 8, 2020
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(I know someone was trying to get an accent aigu to display and it wasn't working a couple days ago)
And I wouldn't put it past them to manufacture some RW organization that suddenly awards him something that is closely-named so as to appear to be one. 
