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Louise Glück
Louise Elisabeth Glück 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…
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culture · American poet and Nobel laureate (1943–2023) · writer · poet · essayist · also Louise Glück, Louise Elisabeth Glück, Louise Gluck, Glück
Born 22 April 1943 · Died 13 October 2023 · Q2344210
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2026· 1 entry
2023· 6 entries
The Guardian: Louise Glück: a poet who never shied away from silence, pain or fear
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The Guardian: Louise Glück, Nobel prize-winning poet, dies at 80
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Died 2023-10-13.
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Was appointed a professor of English at Stanford University, where she taught in the Creative Writing Program
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Glück died from cancer at home in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on October 13, 2023, at age 80.
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“The poem will not survive on content but through voice. By voice I mean the style of thought, for which a style of speech never convincingly substitutes.”
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2022· 4 entries
The Guardian: Louise Glück and the trauma of being a replacement child | Letter
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The Guardian: Marigold and Rose by Louise Glück review – the babies’ tale
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The Guardian: First fiction work by Nobel prize-winning poet Louise Glück to be published in UK
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Was named the Frederick Iseman Professor in the Practice of Poetry at Yale
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2021· 3 entries
The Guardian: Louise Glück: Poems 1962-2020 review – a grand introduction to the Nobel prize winner
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The Guardian: Poem of the week: The Red Poppy by Louise Glück
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Glück's collection, Winter Recipes from the Collective, was published
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2020· 10 entries
The Forward: Louise Glück’s ‘minstrel show’ Nobel speech draws ire
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Awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature — for her unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal.
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The Guardian: Nobel literature prize winner Louise Glück reveals 'panic' in acceptance speech
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The Guardian: ‘She never stops making demands on herself’: how US poet Louise Glück won the Nobel
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The Guardian: Louise Glück: Colm Tóibín on a brave and truthful Nobel winner
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The Guardian: Louise Glück: where to start with an extraordinary Nobel winner
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The Guardian: Louise Glück wins the 2020 Nobel prize in literature – as it happened
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The Guardian: Louise Glück wins the 2020 Nobel prize in literature
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Awarded Tomas Tranströmer prize (2020).
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Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature (2020).
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2015· 1 entry
Won National Humanities Medal (2015).
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2014· 2 entries
The Guardian: Poem of the week: A Work of Fiction by Louise Glück
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Awarded National Book Award for Faithful and Virtuous Night (2014).
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2012· 3 entries
Observer: Louise Gluck
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The publication of a collection of a half-century's worth of her poems, entitled Poems: 1962–2012, was called "a literary event"
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The critic Dwight Garner called it "the most brutal and sorrow-filled book of American poetry published in the last 25 years"
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2010· 1 entry
The Guardian: A Village Life by Louise Glück | Book review
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2008· 1 entry
Awarded Wallace Stevens Award (2008).
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2007· 1 entry
Awarded PEN New England Award (2007).
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2004· 1 entry
In response to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, Glück published a chapbook entitled October
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2003· 3 entries
Awarded United States Poet Laureate (2003).
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The critic Stephanie Burt said the collection "revealed a forceful but clotted poet, an anxious imitator of Robert Lowell and Sylvia Plath"
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Was appointed the judge of the Yale Series of Younger Poets, a position she held until 2010
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2001· 1 entry
Awarded Bollingen Prize (2001).
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1999· 3 entries
Awarded Lannan Literary Awards (1999).
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Glück, along with the poets Rita Dove and W
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Was also elected a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets, a post she held until 2005
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1996· 1 entry
Her marriage to John Dranow ended in divorce, the difficult nature of which affected their business relationship, resulting in Dranow's removal from his positions at the New England Culinary Institute
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1995· 1 entry
For her book, May You Live in Interesting Times
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1994· 1 entry
Published a collection of essays called Proofs & Theories: Essays on Poetry
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1993· 2 entries
Awarded Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for The Wild Iris (1993).
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Cementing Glück's reputation as a preeminent American poet
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1988· 1 entry
Awarded National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship (1988).
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1985· 1 entry
Awarded National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry for The Triumph of Achilles (1985).
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1984· 1 entry
Glück joined the faculty of Williams College in Massachusetts as a senior lecturer in the English Department
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1980· 2 entries
Glück's third collection, Descending Figure, was published
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Dranow and Francis Voigt, the husband of poet Ellen Bryant Voigt, co-founded the New England Culinary Institute as a private, for-profit college
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1979· 1 entry
Awarded National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship (1979).
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1977· 1 entry
Married John Dranow, an author who had started the summer writing program at Goddard College
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1975· 1 entry
Awarded Guggenheim Fellowship (1975).
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1973· 1 entry
Glück gave birth to her son, Noah, with her partner, Keith Monley, who helped raise him for the first two years of his life
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1970· 1 entry
Awarded National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship (1970).
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1968· 1 entry
Glück published her first collection of poems, Firstborn, which received some positive critical attention
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1966· 1 entry
Studied at Columbia University (1963–1966).
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1943· 1 entry
Born 1943-04-22.
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