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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
According to reports, Gluck succumbed to cancer. Apart from being an eminent poet, Gluck was also a poetry professor at Yale University.
“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.