The writer is considered by many to be one of the most talented contemporary poets in the United States.
The writer Louise Gluck, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, has died at the age of 80. The information was released on Friday (12) by Jonathan Galassi, her editor at Farrar, Straus & Giroux. The cause of death has not been revealed.
With a career spanning more than 60 years, Louise Gluck is considered by many to be one of the most talented contemporary poets in the United States, known for her technical precision, sensitivity and work on loneliness, family relationships, divorce and death.
In Brazil, she has had two books published, “Receitas De Inverno Da Comunidade” and “Poemas (2006-2014)”, both by Companhia das Letras.
Her first books focused on failed love affairs, disastrous family encounters and existential despair. In her later works, she continued to deal with themes such as disappointment, rejection, loss and isolation.
In 1993, Louise Gluck won a Pulitzer Prize for her book “The wild iris”. The work, a clear example of the dreamlike character of her poetry, is set in a garden and imagines three voices: flowers speaking to a poet-gardener, the poet-gardener himself and an omniscient god figure.
The author’s poems have also appeared in books such as “Firstborn” (1968), “The house on marshland” (1975), “The garden” (1976), “Descending figure” (1980), “The triumph of Achilles” (1985) and “Ararat” (1990).
Her highlights of the past decade are “Faithful and virtuous night” (2014), winner of the National Book Award, and “Poems 1962-2012” (2012), which won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize.
In 2020, the poet won the Nobel Prize for Literature, thanks to her “unmistakable poetic voice which, with austere beauty, makes individual existence universal”, according to the jury.