NEW YORK • Louise Glück, an American poet long revered for the power, inventiveness and concision of her work and for her generosity to younger writers, has won the Nobel Prize in Literature.

The Nobel Committee on Thursday praised her as “candid and uncompromising” in granting a rare honor for a U.S. poet, with Wallace Stevens, Gwendolyn Brooks and Robert Frost among her predecessors who were bypassed.

A former U.S. poet laureate, Glück, who is 77, had received virtually every honor possible for a poet, including the Pulitzer Prize in 1993 for “The Wild Iris,” the National Book Award in 2014 for “Faithful and Virtuous Night” and a National Humanities Medal in 2015.

She is the 16th woman to get the Nobel for literature since it was started in 1901.

Nobel laureates receive a $1.1 million prize and are usually feted at a banquet in December, but the event was canceled this year because of the pandemic.

Louise Gluck

Michael Dwyer