Louise Glück was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature by the Swedish Academy this year by the Swedish Academy, which announced its decision in Stockholm on Thursday.

According to the board’s logic, Louise Glück receives the award for her unmistakable poetic voice, which makes individual existence universal with her somber beauty.

The 77-year-old Hungarian-born poet, who currently lives in Massachusetts, enriches himself on 10 million SEK (342.2 million florins). in much more modest conditions than usual.

More of Glück’s poems translated into Hungarian can be read here, she became the 16th woman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature.

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Glück’s paternal grandparents were Hungarian Jews who immigrated to the United States, where they eventually had a grocery store in New York. The recent Nobel laureate was born here in 1943.

As a teenager, Glück was anorexic, which became a definite challenge in his late teens and early teens. In one trial, he described the disease as a result of efforts to assert his independence from his mother. Elsewhere, he linked his illness to the death of an elderly nurse that happened before he was born. He attended therapy for years, was also expelled from school, and eventually graduated in 1961.

He studied literature at Sarah Lawrence College, then attended the poetry workshop at Columbia University School of Elementary Education, where Léonie Adamset and Stanley Kunitz were taught as teachers.

His first volume of poetry, Firstborn, was published in 1968 and since then he has written 13 more books of poetry, the most recent in 2014. Faithful and virtuous night with the title. Its October 2004 issue is a poem from a book about the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, which is based on aspects of trauma and suffering, drawing on ancient mythology.

In addition, his volumes of essays on poetry are known.

Glück is currently an assistant professor at Yale University and a writer-in-residence at Rosenkranz.

The Nobel Prize for Literature is decided by the members of the Swedish Academy. The award was postponed last year due to the sexual harassment and leaks scandal that rocked the academy. Several members and leaders of the academy have resigned, and the board has grown with several new members, whose rules have since been renewed, and the 2018 and 2019 awards were also presented last year. The first was for Olga Tokarczuk from Poland and the second for Peter Handke from Austria.



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