Before Thursday, only 15 women had won the Nobel Prize in literature since it was first awarded in 1901. Hearing the news that Glück had won the Nobel Prize, former U.S. poet laureate Robert Pinsky said, “Sometimes, the world gets these things right. Structural problems with the committee were considered so intractable that the 2018 literature prize was postponed till 2019. Last year’s literature prize was awarded to Peter Handke, a controversial Austrian writer known for his sympathy for the late Yugoslav leader Slobodan Milosevic, who was accused of genocide. The only other living U.S. winner of the Nobel Prize in literature is the musician Bob Dylan, who received the award in 2016.

Source: Washington Post October 08, 2020 11:10 UTC