Literature · 1943–2023
Born: 22 April 1943 · Died: 13 October 2023 · Age at death: 80
Louise Glück died aged 80. She was born on 22 April 1943 and died on 13 October 2023.
American poet and essayist who won the Nobel Prize in Literature
Did you know?Much of her work was influenced by her personal experiences, and she published her first collection of poems titled Firstborn in the sixties.
Louise Glück wrote spare, unflinching poems about loss, family and survival. She often spoke through mythic figures or even flowers. In The Wild Iris, garden plants talk back to the gardener and to God. Her voice was cool and exact, yet deeply personal. She taught generations of young poets. The Nobel committee praised her austere beauty. Many readers find comfort in her refusal to soften pain. She died in 2023, leaving a body of work admired for its honesty.
Louise Elisabeth Glück ( 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".
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American poet, born 1943
Louise Glück was born in New York City on 22 April 1943.
She won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2020.
She won the Pulitzer Prize for The Wild Iris in 1993.
She was US Poet Laureate from 2003 to 2004.
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Did you know?She often drew on Greek myth in her poems.
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