Louise Gluck is an American artist and writer. She has won various major scholarly honors, including the Pulitzer Prize, National Humanities Medal, National Book Award, National Book Critics Circle Award, and the Bollingen Prize. In 2020, she was granted the Nobel Prize in Literature “for her indisputable idyllic voice that with grave magnificence makes individual presence widespread”.
Louise Gluck’s career
In 1993 Glück won a Pulitzer Prize for The Wild Iris (1992). Her later works included Meadowlands (1996), The First Five Books of Poems (1997), and The Seven Ages (2001). Averno (2006) was her generally welcomed treatment of the Persephone legend.
Unknown Facts About Louise Gluck
- Faithful and Virtuous Night (2014) deals with mortality and nocturnal silence, sometimes from a male perspective; it won the National Book Award.
- Glück was editor of The Best American Poetry 1993 (1993).
- Her essay collections on poetry included Proofs and Theories (1994) and American Originality (2017).
Louise Gluck Biography
Name Louise Gluck
Real Name Louise Elisabeth Glück
Nickname Louise
Profession Poet
Date of Birth April 22, 1943
Age 77
Father Name Daniel Gluck
Mother Name Beatrice Gluck
Height Yet to be updated
Weight Yet to be updated
Zodiac Sign / Sun Sign Taurus
Religion Christian
Educational Qualification Graduate
Hobbies Reading, Writing
Hometown New York, U.S.
Nationality American
Married Yes
Husband Name Charles Hertz, Jr. (Ex), John Dranow (Ex)
Current City New York, U.S.