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A celebrated poet and Nobel laureate, Louise Glück wrote about mortality, broken families and human frailty with devastating wryness and quiet beauty.
The prize has gone to a Norwegian playwright and novelist whose work examines the lives of ordinary people on the outer reaches of society.
The aura of a major literary prize will inevitably fade. What we are left with is the work itself.
The power in Gurnah’s writing lies in his ability to complicate the Manichean divisions of enemies and friends.
The Nobel committee hailed her “unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal”.
The long and turbulent history of the Nobel Prize for Literature continues.
The prize committee has opted for a more traditional laureate this year, nominating a traditional novelist after last year’s controversial choice of Bob Dylan.
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