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Four years after Dylan, another American wins the Nobel

‘You never know what the Swedish Academy is going to do. I didn’t think they would go back to America so quickly, but it’s really a righteous award, and a beautiful one. They picked one of the best poets writing in the world.’Poet and former Ecco publisher Daniel Halpern responds to US poet Louise Glück being awarded the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature only four years after Bob Dylan received the prize.

 

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