The prestigious Nobel Prize was established in 1901 so 2020 marks its 119th edition. The Nobel Prizes in the categories of Medicine or Physiology, Physics, Chemistry, Literature, Peace and Economics are respectively announced from October 5 to 12. Cattolicanews publishes opinions from the University’s professors regarding these prestigious international awards, attributed to laureates who have distinguished themselves in the various fields of human knowledge and who have benefited humanity with their research.

Francesco Rognoni, Professor of Anglo-American Literature at the Faculty of Linguistic Sciences and Foreign Literatures at the Brescia campus of Università Cattolica comments on the Nobel Prize for Literature awarded today to the American poet Louise Glück "for her unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal".  

"Louise Glück is a poet of the highest quality who debuted in 1968 with a production of confessional poetry but who then found an original voice thanks to a very interesting way of combining psychoanalytic influences and literary and mythological wisdom," said Francesco Rognoni. In Italy  Glück still needs to be fully discovered, after the translations of The Wild Iris in 2003 and Averno in 2019. Francesco Rognoni gave his interpretation of the poet's production by reading an excerpt from Glück’s poem The Night Migrations:

What will the soul do for solace then?
I tell myself maybe it won't need
these pleasures anymore;
maybe just not being is simply enough,
hard as that is to imagine.