2023-10-13 22:16:13
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Death of 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.
Updated October 14, 2023, 00:16
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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This native of New York, considered one of the greatest figures of 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,” greeted his historic publisher Jonathan Galassi of Farrar, Straus and Giroux in a press release to AFP.
Prix Pulitzer
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”, 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 fifty years, the author has published 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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