Louise Glück

U.S. poet and Nobel laureate (1943–2023)

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Louise Glück was an American poet whose work explored themes of loss, transformation, and human experience through precise language and emotional depth. She won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2020, one of the highest honors in writing, and remains influential in contemporary poetry.

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Born: 1943-04-22
Died: 2023-10-13
Works: 59

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Country: DE
Active from: 1714-07-02
Active to: 1787-11-15

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Louise Elisabeth Glück (/ɡlɪk/ 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". Her other awards include the Pulitzer Prize, National Humanities Medal, National Book Award, National Book Critics Circle Award, and Bollingen Prize. From 2003 to 2004, she was Poet Laureate of the United States.

Glück was born in New York City and raised on Long Island. She began to suffer from anorexia nervosa while in high school and later overcame the illness. She attended Sarah Lawrence College and Columbia University but did not obtain a degree. In addition to being an author, she taught poetry at several academic institutions.