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Leading author Louise Glück won the Nobel Prize for Literature, the Swedish Academy reported Thursday from Stockholm.
Born in New York City on April 22, 1943, Glück’s work has also been awarded the United States Library of Congress Prize.
Gluck, 77, was awarded for her “unmistakable poetic voice, which, with austere beauty, makes individual existence universal,” the institution said.
The poet trained at the traditional Columbia University and her work was also awarded the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1993 and the National Book Prize (2014).
Louise Glück combines her writing profession with teaching at different educational centers, such as Yale University.
With this award, the Swedish Academy sends a strong message of its commitment to stay away from the sexual harassment scandals, within it, that clouded its image in the preceding years. And it does so, precisely, by rewarding the so-called “major genre” in the history of universal letters.
In this way, as lovers of letters are beginning to comment on social networks, “poetry is celebrating this year.”
Childhood and family life, the close relationship between parents and brothers and sisters, are some of the themes on which Glück has focused his work.
The works of Glück, who has published twelve collections of poetry and some volumes of essays on poetry, are characterized by an effort for clarity, according to the Swedish Academy.
“In her poems, the self listens to what remains of her dreams and illusions, and no one can be harder than her to face the illusions of the self,” the institution added about Glück.
“Averno” (2006) is his masterful collection of poems, a visionary interpretation of the myth of the descent into hell of Persephone, captive of Hades, god of Death.
“Another spectacular achievement is Louise Glück’s latest collection, ‘Faithful and Virtuous Night’ (2014),” adds the institution about the award-winning work.
According to the permanent secretary of the academy, Ander Olson, in his essays, Glück has dialogued with other key poets of the English language such as TS Eliot or John Keats.
Her first work was “Firstborn” (1968) and she was soon hailed as one of the most outstanding poets in contemporary American literature.
With books like “The Triumph of Achilles” (1985) or “Ararat” (1990) Glück has found a wide audience inside and outside the United States.
The Academy and its vindication with women
Two years after the Polish Olga Tokarczuk, Louise Glück thus becomes the 16th woman awarded the prize, in a very feminine Nobel edition.
With three laureates in the scientific categories of the Nobel, this season could beat the record of women awarded (five in 2009), since there are still two awards to be awarded, the Peace award -on Friday- and the Economics one, on Monday.
After a series of scandals or controversies that marred the world’s most famous literary award in recent years, this year’s selection of the Swedish Academy was especially unpredictable, according to critics.
Last year, the 2019 prize was awarded to Austrian writer Peter Handke, whose daring positions in favor of Milosevic generated much controversy, which added to the sex scandal that tore apart the institution three years ago and led to the awarding of the award from 2018 was postponed a year.
The Literature Prize, like the rest of the Nobel prizes, is awarded on 10
December, anniversary of the death of the founder of these distinctions, Alfred
Nobel.
With information from AFP and EFE
