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Glück, who was regarded as one of America’s greatest writers by the time she arrived at Yale, in 2004, was a dedicated teacher and mentor to students.

(CNN) — Louise Glück, the former US Poet Laureate and 2020 Nobel Prize awardee whose deceptively simple poems revealed visceral truths about love, loss and survival, has died at 80.

Louise Gluck, poet and Nobel laureate, passes away at 80.

Her poetry was known for its candor in exploring family and childhood with "an unmistakable voice" and "austere beauty"

One of Americas most celebrated poets and essayists has passed away at her home in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Alongside the Nobel prize, she was a Pulitzer Prize winner and served as US Poet Laureate.

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

Louise Gluck, a renowned poet who won a Nobel Prize for Literature in 2020, has died at age 80, according to media reports in the United States on Friday that cited her editor. Her poetry was known for its candor in exploring family and childhood with "an unmistakable voice" and "austere beauty," the Swedish Academy, which is responsible for selecting...

The American writer had a sharp, clear and honest style that did not avoid facing pain and family traumas

“The advantage of poetry over life is that poetry, if it is sharp enough, may last,” the decorated poet once wrote.

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