Key-Points<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\nGluck, 77, was honoured \u201cfor her unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal,\u201d the Academy said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A professor at Yale University, Gl\u00fcck made her debut in 1968 with her collection titled ‘Firstborn’. She is seen as one of the most prominent poet and essayist in American contemporary literature.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
She won the Pulitzer Prize in 1993 for her collection The Wild Iris and the National Book Award for her latest collection, Faithful and Virtuous Night, in 2014.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
She is the fourth woman to win the Nobel Literature Prize in the past decade \u2014 after Olga Tokarczuk, Svetlana Alexievich and Alice Munro \u2014 and only the 16th since the Nobel prizes were first awarded in 1901.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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