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Louise Elisabeth Glück (/ ɡ l ɪ k / GLIK; [1] [2] 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 ]
Louise Glück, the former US Poet Laureate and 2020 Nobel Prize awardee whose poems considered and revealed truths about love, loss and survival, has died at 80.
A former student of Glück's, the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Jorie Graham, said that the author had only recently been diagnosed. Louise Glück, Nobel-winning poet of terse and candid lyricism ...
Louise Glück, the witty, candid and uncompromising former U.S. poet laureate who won the Nobel and Pulitzer prizes, has died at age 80.
American poet Mary Karr for whom Glück served as a thesis adviser expressed disappointment, saying: "At this point in history, Louise Glück – my grad thesis advisor [and] a poet I deeply admire – wrote a minstrel show Nobel speech. In 1789, Blake's 'Black Boy' might have passed as 'abolitionist', but it came out of a shoe-polished white face.
[812] (death announced on this date) John Farber, 98, Romanian-born American businessman and billionaire. [813] Carlos Fernandes, 40, Angolan LGBT activist, asphyxiated. [814] Alois Glück, 84, German politician, member (1970–2008) and president (2003–2008) of the Landtag of Bavaria. [815] Pilar Gonzalbo Aizpuru, 89, Spanish-Mexican ...
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Glück will take home 10 million Swedish kronor (around $1.1 million) along with a gold medal, courtesy of a bequest left 124 years ago by the prize's creator, Swedish inventor Alfred Nobel.