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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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