Q39
Current Affairs & General KnowledgeAwards & Honours
The Nobel Prize in Literature 2020 was awarded to
- a.Louise Glück
- b.John Dranow
- c.Peter Handke
- d.Peter Ackroyd
Answer: (A) Louise Glück
The 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature went to the American poet Louise Glück for her 'unmistakable poetic voice'; her collections include The Wild Iris (Pulitzer Prize, 1993) and Averno. Peter Handke (Austria) won the 2019 prize, announced together with the delayed 2018 prize of Olga Tokarczuk (Poland). John Dranow is a writer who was Glück's former husband, and Peter Ackroyd is an English novelist and biographer - neither is a Nobel laureate. The 2021 prize went to Abdulrazak Gurnah (Tanzania/UK).