Louise Glück

Louise Glück is an American poet who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2020. Born in 1943 in New York City, she studied at Sarah Lawrence College and Columbia University. She is the Rosenkranz Writer in Residence at Yale University. She won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for The Wild Iris (1992), the National Book Award for Poetry for Faithful and Virtuous Night (2014), and the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2020. The Nobel committee described her as writing 'with austere beauty' about individual existence. Faithful and Virtuous Night won the 2015 National Book Award for Poetry. Glück's other celebrated collections include Ararat (1990), Meadowlands (1996), and Averno (2006). She has also published a collection of essays, Proofs and Theories (1994). She served as Poet Laureate of the United States from 2003 to 2004 and is one of the most decorated poets in American literary history.