By Chathushka Perera
New Delhi (CWBN) _ Poet, Louise Glück, received the Nobel Prize in Literature 2020 for her “unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal.”
Glück is an American poet, essayist and professor, based at the University of Yale, Connecticut. She is also a recipient of many American accolades such as those of the National Humanities Medal, the Guggenheim and National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, the Pulitzer Prize, the American Academy of Arts and Letter’s Gold Medal and others.
The seventy-seven year old is well known for focusing her works into the aspects of nature and human experience through frank expression, while her career as a whole commands the respect of many inspiring writers across the globe.
In her youth, Glück enrolled with the University of Columbia, however, failed to earn her degree. Later on, for a short period, she worked as a secretary. Her first anthology of poetry “Firstborn” was published in 1968 and she received a favorable criticism for it.
Her publications include, The House on Marshland (1975), Descending Figure (1980), Triumph of Achilles (1985), Ararat (1990), The Wild Iris (1992), Proofs and Theories: Essays of Poetry (1994), Meadowlands (1996), Vita Nova (1999),The Seven Ages (2001), October (2004), Averno (2006), A Village Life (2009), Faithful and Virtuous (2014), Poems 1962-2012 (2012) and finally American Originality (2017).
