American poet Louise Glück wins the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature

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American poet

has won the

.

The Swedish Academy announced the decision on Thursday at a press conference in Stockholm.

He succeeds Austrian writer Peter Handke and Polish novelist Olga Tokarczuk, who were recognized with

in 2019, when the award for 2018 was also awarded. That year the Academy was unable to assemble a jury to the Nobel Prize for Literature after a sex scandal.

The writer Maryse Condé left as the first

of the bookmakers on the eve of the Nobel Prize for Literature.

Condé appeared alongside Russian author Liudmila Ulítskaya among the most likely laureates.

Along with them, the

included Chinese, Japanese, American, Norwegian writers ... and a Spaniard,

, placed in a remarkable seventh place.

Haruki Murakami and Margaret Atwood shared a list of probable candidates with Anne Carson, Annie Ernaux, Cormac McCarthy, Don De Lillo, Marilynne Robinson or Edna O'Brien.

With today's award,

have been awarded

, 11 of them for Spanish-language writers.

Of this more than one hundred winners, only 15 have been women.

The average age of the winners is 65, with Ruyard Kipling being the youngest (41 years) and Doris Lessing the oldest (88 years).

According to the criteria of The Trust Project

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