Louise Glück, Nobel prize-winning poet, dies at 80
Pulitzer prize winner and former US poet laureate was known for her sharp, austere lyrical work
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Pulitzer prize winner and former US poet laureate was known for her sharp, austere lyrical work
The American writer was lauded “for her unmistakable poetic voice.”
The winner of the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature and Poet Laureate of the United States from 2003-2004 was 80 years old.
In 2020, she became the first US poet to be awarded the Nobel prize for literature since TS Eliot in 1948.
American poet Louise Gluck, winner of the Nobel prize for her distinctively austere writing that touched on themes of mythology and the universal human experience, has died, a Yale University spokeswoman told AFP on Friday.