Gallimard will publish in March two first collections of the American poet Louise Glück, Nobel Prize for literature 2020, and plans to publish others thereafter, announced Friday the publishing house.
The Wild Iris
(
The Wild Iris
) and
Night of Faith
and Virtuous Night
(
Faithful and Virtuous Night
) will be published in Gallimard's “From the Whole World” collection.
In French, the translation of a poetess had remained confidential until now, and was limited to specialized journals.
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This writer, born in 1943 in New York, has published twelve collections of poems and two essays.
She teaches at Yale University and has received many prestigious awards in the United States.
At 77, this discreet woman was awarded the Nobel Prize "
for her characteristic poetic voice, which with its austere beauty makes individual existence universal
", according to the Swedish Academy.
"
The tragic beauty of all life
"
“
In
Wild Iris
, Louise Glück expresses the tragic beauty of all life, the time of flowering.
This polyphonic collection of incomparable originality, perfectly composed, was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for poetry when it was published in 1992 and marked a decisive turning point in the work of Louise Glück
”, underlined Gallimard.
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Au bout de ma pain…
by Louise Glück
In her most recent collection,
Night of Faith and Virtue
, published in the United States in 2014 and awarded the National Book Award, “
Louise Glück has succeeded in restoring to human experience all its mystery by using the resources of narration, diverted for the benefit of his poetry
”.
Louise Glück is the 16th woman to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.
She became the 12th American laureate in this discipline, after notably Hemingway (1954), Steinbeck (1962), Toni Morrison (1993) and Bob Dylan (2016).
