Visn. Nac. Akad. Nauk Ukr. 2020.(12):50-55
https://doi.org/10.15407/visn2020.12.050

Ganna O. Stembkovska
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0340-3924
Taras Shevchenko Institute of Literature of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine

POETRY AS A SURVIVAL STRATEGY
Nobel Prize in Literature for 2020

The Nobel Prize in Literature in 2020 was awarded to the American poet Louise Glück “for her unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal.” According to the Nobel Committee, Louise Glück's work is characterized by a striving for clarity, and “childhood and family life, the close relationship with parents and siblings, is a thematic that has remained central with her.”
Keywords: Nobel Prize in Literature, Louise Glück.

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