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Louise Elisabeth Glück (/ ɡ l ɪ k / GLIK; April 22, 1943 – October 13, 2023) was an American poet and essayist. She won the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature , whose judges praised "her unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal". [3]
Considered by many to be one of America’s most talented contemporary poets, Glück was known for her poetry’s technical precision, sensitivity, and insight into loneliness, family relationships, divorce, and death. The poet Robert Hass called her “one of the purest and most accomplished lyric poets now writing.”.
Oct 13, 2023 · Louise Glück, an American poet whose searing, deeply personal work, often filtered through themes of classical mythology, religion and the natural world, won her practically every honor...
The Nobel Prize in Literature 2020 was awarded to Louise Glück "for her unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal"
Oct 13, 2023 · Louise Glück. The Nobel Prize in Literature 2020. Born: 22 April 1943, New York, NY, USA. Died: 13 October 2023, Cambridge, MA, USA. Residence at the time of the award: Cambridge, MA, USA. Prize motivation: “for her unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal” Prize share: 1/1. Work.
Jun 11, 2024 · Louise Glück (born April 22, 1943, New York, New York, U.S.—died October 13, 2023, Cambridge, Massachusetts) was an American poet whose willingness to confront the horrible, the difficult, and the painful resulted in a body of work characterized by insight and a severe lyricism.
Oct 13, 2023 · Oct. 13, 2023. To the uninitiated, Louise Glück — who died on Friday at the age of 80 — could feel like an intimidating or chilly poet, her range of references so lofty and seemingly private that...
The author of numerous collections of poetry, Louise Glück is the recipient of the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature, served as a Chancellor for the Academy of American Poets, and twas the Library of Congress’s poet laureate consultant in poetry.
when you forget where you are. because you’ve been living, it seems, somewhere else, in the silence of the night sky. You’ve stopped being here in the world. You’re in a different place, a place where human life has no meaning. You’re not a creature in a body.
Oct 13, 2023 · Acclaimed American poet and Nobel laureate in literature Louise Glück has died at the age of 80. She received a Nobel in 2020, becoming the first American poet to win the honour since TS Eliot...
