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Nobel laureate Louise Glück, a poet of unblinking candor and perception who wove classical allusions, philosophical reveries, bittersweet memories and humorous asides into indelible portraits of a fallen and heartrending world, has died at 80.

Nobel laureate Louise Glück has died at 80

Nobel laureate Louise Glück, a poet of unblinking candor and perception who wove classical allusions, philosophical reveries, bittersweet memories and humorous asides into indelible portraits of a fallen and heartrending world, has died at 80. Glück's death was confirmed Friday by Jonathan Galassi, her editor at Farrar, Straus & Giroux., World News, Times Now

Poet and Nobel laureate Louise Gluck has died aged 80.

Nobel laureate Louise Glück, a poet of unblinking candor and perception who wove classical allusions, philosophical reveries, bittersweet memories and humorous asides into indelible portraits of a fallen and heartrending world, has died at 80.

In a career spanning more than 60 years, Gluck forged a narrative of trauma, disillusion, stasis and longing, spelled by moments of ecstasy and contentment.

Nobel laureate Louise Glück, a poet of unblinking candor and perception has died at 80 after a career spanning more than 60 years.

In 2020 she became the first US poet to be awarded the Nobel prize for literature since TS Eliot in 1948.

In 2020, she became the first US poet to be awarded the Nobel prize for literature since TS Eliot in 1948.

Gluck, inspired by Shakespeare and Greek mythology, was the first American poet to win Nobel prize for literature since TS Eliot in 1948