Poets are rare, and female poets who have been awarded a Nobel Prize in Literature are a rarest lot. This video is about three poets, all from 21st century, Louise Glück, Mary Oliver & Wisława Szymborska .
The Nobel Prize in Literature 2020 was awarded to Louise Glück "for her unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal
Mary Oliver, a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet whose work, with its plain language and minute attention to the natural world, drew a wide following while dividing critics.
A prolific writer with more than 20 volumes of verse to her credit, Ms. Oliver received a Pulitzer Prize in 1984 for her collection “American Primitive,” published by Little, Brown & Company. She won a National Book Award in 1992 for “New and Selected Poems,” published by Beacon Press.
The Nobel Prize in Literature in the year 1996 was awarded to Wislawa Szymborska
“for poetry that with ironic precision allows the historical and biological context to come to light in fragments of human reality".

Books Mentioned in the video -
Louise Gluck, Poems, 1962-2012(FSG Classics)
Mary Oliver, Devotions (Penguin)
Wisława Szymborska, Poems, New and Collected 1957-1997 (Faber & Faber)

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Videographed and Edited by - Shubham Sharma
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