Louise Glück

Louise Glück is the author of twelve books of poems and two collections of essays. She received the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature ‘for her unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal’. Her other awards include the National Humanities Medal, the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the Bollingen Prize, the Wallace Stevens Award from the Academy of American Poets, and the Gold Medal for Poetry from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She taught at Yale University and Stanford University and lived in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She died in October 2023 at the age of 80. Photo © Katherine Wolkoff

This complete biography of Louise Glück is taken from the Carcanet Press website.

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