2023-10-13 21:26:34
– Death of the American Louise Glück, Nobel Prize winner for literature
The American poet Louise Glück, crowned with the Nobel Prize for Literature, has died at the age of 80, the prestigious Yale University at which she taught confirmed to AFP on Friday.
Published: 10/13/2023, 11:26 p.m. Updated 35 minutes ago
United States President Barack Obama (right) presents the National Humanities Medal to poet Louise Gluck (left) during a ceremony at the White House September 22, 2016 in Washington, DC.
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2020 winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, Louise Glück, who died at the age of 80 and considered one of the greatest voices in American poetry, drew the material for her work from the simple beauty of nature and its childhood.
A native of New York and a teacher at Yale, the poet is the 16th woman to have been awarded the Nobel Prize for literature and the 12th American laureate in this discipline, after notably Hemingway (1954), Steinbeck (1962), Toni Morrison ( 1993) and Bob Dylan (2016).
His work, begun in the late 1960s, famous for its fluid style and its sublimation of the simple beauty of nature, has earned him numerous prestigious awards in the United States. One of his poems, “Japonica” (a group of butterflies), recalls the refined art of Japanese painters, beginning with “The trees are blooming/on the hill./They bear/large solitary flowers,/japonicas” .
Jeanne D’Arc
Even dedicated to the confidentiality that our era reserves for free verse, his poetry has remained very accessible. It does without any critical explanatory apparatus, and Louise Glück’s English can be read without too much difficulty provided that one has some knowledge of this language.
A fan of simplicity, Louise Glück cited poets known for their clarity of expression, William Butler Yeats (Nobel Prize 1923) and TS Eliot (Nobel Prize 1948), as her first youthful influences.
Besides nature, the great source of inspiration lay in his childhood. His Germanic surname came from Jewish grandparents from Hungary who emigrated to the United States at the beginning of the 20th century. She herself was born in 1943 in New York, into a family who encouraged her to express her creativity.
One of her childhood heroines was Joan of Arc, to whom she dedicated a short poem in 1975. “And now the voices answer that I must / transform myself into fire, according to God’s design.”
The death of a sister
Her adolescence was difficult, she suffered from anorexia. One of her traumas was the loss of an older sister, who died shortly after birth. “My sister spent a whole life in the earth./She was born, she died./In the meantime,/not a waking glance, not a sentence,” she says in “Lost Love” , 1990).
“Throughout all of Glück’s poetic work, many of the central figures in his poems are female (…) either a young woman, who is often distinguished as someone’s daughter, or a mother,” he wrote in 2020 Allison Cooke, literature researcher. Louise Glück is the mother of one child.
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
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