2023-10-13 22:13:33
by Culture Editorial Staff
The New York author passed away at the age of 80. Already winner of a Pulitzer, she was the sixteenth woman awarded the prize for Literature in Stockholm
The American poet Louise Glück, Nobel Prize winner for Literature in 2020, has died at the age of 80. She lived in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The news was confirmed on Friday 13 October by Jonathan Galassi, her editor at the Farrar, Straus & Giroux publishing house and by Yale University where the writer had taught.
Born in New York in 1943 into a family of Hungarian Jewish immigrants, Glück had a literary career spanning over 60 years and twelve published collections of verse. In 2020 she was the first American poet to win the Nobel since TS Eliot in 1948 and the sixteenth woman honored by the Swedish Academy of Literature. Before the Stockholm recognition you had received other important awards, from the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (1993), to the National Book Award (2014), to the nomination as Poet Laureate of the United States in 2003.
The Swedish Academy, in the Nobel motivations, wrote that it had chosen the poet «for her unmistakable poetic voice which with austere beauty makes individual existence universal». Anders Olsson, the president of the committee, had spoken of Glück’s “minimalist voice”, “frank and uncompromising, full of humor and biting wit” and of poems that enter the heart of family life.
Protagonist of a tragic poem, with a strong autobiographical background, behind the writer was a complex and rather tormented past, with repeated crises of anorexia and difficult relationships with family members. During her adolescence she had suffered from anorexia (an event which was also the subject of some of her poems), so much so that she was forced to abandon her high school studies at George W. Hewlett High School and then her university studies at Sarah Lawrence College and Columbia University in New York. York. Although she did not obtain a degree in her youth, since she was a girl she dedicated herself to the study of literature and writing verse, training at the school of another famous New York poet, Leonie Adams (1899-1988).
His poetry evokes fragments of memories by reworking themes such as isolation and solitude, reread through the lenses of the Greek classics and beloved readings such as that of Dante Alighieri. Protagonist of a tragic poem, with a strong autobiographical background, behind the writer was a complex and rather tormented past, with repeated crises of anorexia and difficult relationships with family members. Born in New York on April 22, 1943 to Hungarian Jewish immigrant parents, Louise Glück grew up on Long Island. During her adolescence she suffered from anorexia (also the subject of some of her poems), so much so that she was forced to abandon her high school studies at George W. Hewlett High School and then her university studies at Sarah Lawrence College and Columbia University in New York. York. Although she did not obtain a degree in her youth, since she was a girl she dedicated herself to the study of literature and writing verse, training at the school of another famous New York poet, Leonie Adams (1899-1988).
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October 13, 2023 (modified October 13, 2023 | 10.37pm)
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