She was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2020. American poet Louise Glück has died at the age of 80, the prestigious Yale University where she taught confirmed on Friday.
The New York native, considered one of the greatest figures in American poetry, was awarded "for her characteristic poetic voice" by the Swedish Academy in 2020, becoming the 16th woman to win the literature prize.
"Louise Glück's poetry gives voice to our unquenchable thirst for knowledge and connections in an often unreliable world. His work is immortal," his longtime publisher Jonathan Galassi of Farrar, Straus and Giroux said in a statement.
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His work, begun in the late 60s and famous for its fluid style and sublimation of the simple beauty of nature, has earned him numerous prestigious awards in the United States.
His polyphonic collection "The Wild Iris", published in 1992, for example, won him the Pulitzer Prize, one of the most prestigious prizes in the world.
In more than 50 years, the author has published a dozen collections of poetry, essays and a novel. The latter, entitled "Marigold and Rose: A fiction" (2022), offers an incandescent dive into the inner lives of very different twins.