She was particularly appreciated by Barack Obama. The American poet Louise Glück, crowned with the Nobel Prize for Literature, has died at the age of 80, her publishing house and the prestigious Yale University at which she taught confirmed to AFP on Friday.
This native of New York, considered one of the greatest figures in American poetry, was rewarded “for her characteristic poetic voice” by the Swedish Academy in 2020, becoming the 16th woman to win this literature prize.
“Louise Glück’s poetry gives voice to our unquenchable thirst for knowledge and connection in an often unreliable world. His work is immortal,” praised his historic publisher Jonathan Galassi of Farrar, Straus and Giroux in a press release to AFP.
Simplicity of nature
His work, begun in the late 1960s and famous for its fluid style and its sublimation of the simple beauty of nature, has earned him numerous prestigious awards in the United States.
His polyphonic collection The Wild Iris (The Wild Iris, late translated into French), published in 1992, for example earned him the Pulitzer Prize, one of the most prestigious prizes in the world.
In more than 50 years, the author has published around ten collections of poetry, essays and a novel. The latter, entitled Marigold and Rose: A fiction (2022) offers an incandescent dive into the inner lives of very different twins.