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Louise Glucks voice is unmistakable, chair Anders Olsson said at the announcement.
It is candid and uncompromising, and it signals this poet wants to be understood.
The Nobel Prize comes with 10 million Swedish krona or around $1.1 million.
In 2003, she was named poet laureate of the United States.
Last year, the academy courted controversy forawardingAustrian author Peter Handke, who has been accused of genocide denial.
(He was latersentencedto two years in prison for rape.)
