Louise Glück

Poet

Cambridge, MA
Massachusetts US

Author's Bio

Louise Glück was born in New York City and grew up on Long Island. She is the author of several books of poetry, including Faithful and Virtuous Night (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2014), for which she won the 2014 National Book Award in Poetry. In 2020 she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature “for her unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal.”

Glück died at the age of eighty on October 13, 2023.

Publications & Prizes

Books:
Faithful and Virtuous Night (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2014)
,
Averno (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006)
,
October (Sarabande Books, 2003)
,
The Seven Ages (Ecco Press, 2002)
,
Vita Nova (Ecco Press, 1999)
,
Meadowlands (Ecco Press, 1996)
,
The Wild Iris (Ecco Press, 1992)
,
Ararat (Ecco Press, 1990)
,
The Triumph of Achilles (Ecco Press, 1985)
Journals:
Poetry
,
The New Yorker
,
Threepenny Review
,
Tikkun
,
TriQuarterly
,
Yale Review
Prizes won: 

2020 Nobel Prize in Literature, 2014 National Book Award in Poetry

More Information

Born in: 
New York, NY
New York
Raised in: 
Woodmere, NY
New York
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Last update: Dec 08, 2023