The 16th female writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature: Who is Louise Glück?

Louise Glück was born on April 22, 1943, in the United States. She has won many major literary awards in the United States, including the National Humanities Medal, the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the Bollingen Prize. Louise Glück received the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature. In the statement made by the Swedish Academy, it was stated that Glück was deemed worthy of the award for her "infallible poetic voice, which, with simple beauty, brings individual existence to universality". In the statement, it was noted that Glück "in her works shaped by the search for clarity, she deals with childhood, family life, relationships with parents and siblings, and these constitute the center of her works."

Louise Elisabeth Glück (April 22, 1943 – October 13, 2023) was an American poet and essayist. She won the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature, whose judges praised "her unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal". Her other awards include the Pulitzer Prize, National Humanities Medal, National Book Award, National Book Critics Circle Award, and Bollingen Prize. From 2003 to 2004, she was the Poet Laureate of the United States.

Glück was born in New York and grew up on New York's Long Island. She began suffering from anorexia nervosa while in high school and later overcame the disease. She took courses at Sarah Lawrence College and Columbia University but did not receive a degree. In addition to her career as a writer, she has pursued an academic career as a poetry teacher at various institutions.

Glück, who published her first book "Firstborn" in 1968, is considered one of the most important poets of American literature. Born in New York in 1943, Glück studied at Sarah Lawrence College and Columbia University. Apart from being a poet, she wrote essays on poetry and gave lectures at universities. The poet, who has published 12 poetry books, won the Pulitzer Prize in 1993 with her book Wild Iris and the National Book Award in 2014 with her book Faithful and Virtuous Night, in addition to the Nobel Prize. Literary critics emphasized that Glück, who focuses on the illuminating aspects of pain, trauma, desire, and nature in her works, created a language that is the sincere expression of sadness and isolation, and drew attention to the connection she established between her success in building poetic characters and her own life story and myths.

Glück became the 16th female writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.