Louise Glück
Louise Glück
1943-04-22 – 2023-10-13 · From United States4
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Louise Elisabeth Glück (/ɡlɪk/ GLIK; born April 22, 1943) is 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, Nat…
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Yes. Louise Glück won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2020, awarded by the Swedish Academy "for her unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal." She had earlier won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1993 for her collection The Wild Iris. Her other honors include the National Book Award for Poetry (2014), the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Bollingen Prize, and the National Humanities Medal. From 2003 to 2004 she served as Poet Laureate of the United States.