Key Points :
- Glück proudly is also the second American to win the award since Bob Dylan in 2016.
- She’s an American poet and an essayist and a professor of English at the Yale University.
- Her collection : Ararat was described in the New York Times a few years ago as “the most brutal and sorrow-filled book and yet she’s seldom a depressing writer.
This 77-year old graceful woman is only the second woman poet to win the award after the Polish writer Wislawa Szymborska, who won the Prize in 1996. Glück proudly is also the second American to win the award since Bob Dylan in 2016.
In 2020 , a year that has pitched the world into disarrangement , it seems only befitting that the Nobel Prize for Literature has gone to the bard of desolation — the American poet and essayist, Louise Glück — “for her unmistakable poetic voice, that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal.”
About Glück :
Aerica’s most well-known contemporary poets, Glück, professor of English at Yale University, began writing in her teens; her first collection of poetry, Firstborn (1968), was published when she was only 25. Firstborn gained favourable reviews for the poet’s unique style, marked by an economy of words and emotion. Her second collection, The House on Marshland, seven years later, would establish her as a poet of reckoning. Since then she has written 12 collections of poetry, including Descending Figure (1980), The Triumph of Achilles (1985), The Wild Iris (1992) and The Faithful and Virtuous Night (2014).
These works of her focus almost exclusively not on the monumental chaos of historical events but on the inner lives of individuals — on separation, loss, death and loneliness and the impact of frayed childhoods and family lives on them.
Her collection : Ararat was described in the New York Times a few years ago as “the most brutal and sorrow-filled book of American poetry published in the last 25 years”. Sadness and grief are certainly a frequent half of what she writes – and yet she’s seldom a depressing writer !
Here’s wishing her all the best for her future endeavors and after a real huge span of time , Glück at the age of 77 can expect, can finally look forward to many new readers – and they can look forward to discovering not just a mere writer but a sensible and sensitive yet fierce and beautiful poet of insight , sadness , hope and humanity .
