The American poet and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature Louise Glück has passed away, the writer died at the age of 80, confirmed yesterday a spokeswoman for the North American University of Yale, where Glück taught. The author was honored with the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2020.
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Glück, born in New York in 1943, began her lyrical work in the late 1960s. She has won numerous awards throughout her long career, including the 1993 Pulitzer Prize for her poetry collection Wild Iris and the National Book Award for 2014 by Faithful and Noble Night.
Poems about family relationships
The central themes of his poems included childhood and family life, the not always harmonious and sometimes even fatal relationships between parents and siblings.
In 2020, she became the 16th woman in history to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature. At the time, the Nobel Committee praised the way Glück was inspired by “classical myths and motifs” in his search for “universal validity”. As an example, he cited the volume of poetry “Averno”, published in 2006 – a new description of the ancient myth of Persephone, with which Glück dealt with themes such as farewell and return, beauty, nature and the possibilities and impossibilities of love.