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The Nobel Prize is awarded to the poet “for her unmistakable poetic voice, universal in the existence of the individual with her simple beauty.” She became the 16th woman to receive this award.
This poet has already been awarded several important prizes. She has been awarded the National Humanitarian Medal, the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Prize, the National Circle of Book Critics Award, and many more.
One of the members of the academy, commenting on this decision, said that the poet is open and uncompromising, strives to be understood and also has a sense of humor. He said that the poet’s work is characterized by a theme of family life, a serious but at the same time playful intelligence, a refined sense of composition.
The Academy announces that it is inspired by classical myths and motifs present in most of its works. His collection was described by the Averno Academy as “a perfect collection, a visionary interpretation of Persephone’s descent into hell by the captive god of death, Hades.”
L. Glück was born in 1943, has published 14 books of poetry and essays on poetry. His first set, Firstborn, was released in 1968.
There are many personal and painful themes in her work, she wrote about the trauma she suffered, about death and healing. The poet also wrote about anorexia that she suffered in adolescence: she said it was her way of becoming independent from her mother.
Translator M. Burokas: “The most fascinating intonation of his texts”
Translations of his poetry into Lithuanian can be found here.
The poet Marius Burokas, who translated L. Glück’s poetry into Lithuanian 15 minutes He said: “First of all, it is gratifying that almost ten years later, the Nobel Prize for poetry is awarded again. The last time the poet received it was in 2011: it was Tom Transtriomer. The Nobel Committee again surprised everyone by choosing an author who was not exactly on any of the betting or prediction lists. The author huddled on the fringes of speculation, but was never considered a serious candidate. L. Glück is one of America’s most famous poets, author of 14 collections of poetry, winning many important literary awards, including the National Medal of Humanities, the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Prize, the National Book Critics Prize and many more. 2003-2004 L. Glück was named US Poet Laureate She writes about personal things, as if they were everyday things: family life, love, divorce, growing up, old age, but she manages to elevate it to a universal level. It uniquely combines a position so apparently distant from the observer with intimate and precise details of personal life. When reading his poetry, it seems as if a dark cloud of destiny, a sense of threat, has hung over people’s lives, the landscape. But at the same time, it perfectly captures the joy of first love, the attraction of bodies and the subtleties of passion. L. Glück’s poetry is frugal, ascetic, even strict. Intense and fascinating. The most fascinating thing is the intonation of his texts: calm but attractive, to feel the tensions that lurk beneath the text. It is a pity that very little has been translated into Lithuanian, only a few texts. Perhaps the Nobel Prize, as always, will draw readers’ attention to this unique poet. “
When reading his poetry, it seems as if a dark cloud of destiny, a sense of threat, has hung over people’s lives, the landscape.
Chosen two winners
Last year, the Nobel Prize for Literature was awarded to two authors: the Polish writer Olga Tokarczuk and the Austrian writer Peter Handke.
Before that, the awarding of the Nobel Prize for Literature had been rocked by scandal. The Nobel Prize in Literature was denied because it turned out that 18 women claimed to have been raped, sexually assaulted or harassed by Jean-Claude Arnault, the wife of Katarina Frostenson, a member of the Academy.
It was only the eighth time in history that it was decided not to award the Nobel Prize for Literature. Previously, the award was not awarded in 1915, 1919, 1925, 1926, 1927, 1936, and 1949.
The scandal could not be avoided
Although it was argued last year that the award of the Nobel Prize would try to avoid conflicting assessments, the award of the prize to P. Handke was also outraged.
The Austrian writer is famous for his nationalistic views. His speech, which he delivered on March 18, 2006 at the funeral of Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic, was the longest. In front of 20,000 funeral attendees, he criticized the West for not understanding what was happening in the former Yugoslavia. After Handke was awarded the Ibsen International Prize in 2014, the commission had to resign, and totalitarian regime expert Bernt Hagtvet said that such an award amounted to awarding the Immanuel Kant Prize to Goebbels. When the writer came to withdraw the award, it was received by protesters. Handke himself said that his critics should “travel to hell.”
Handke has also claimed that the Muslims of Sarajevo killed their own people and accused the Serbs of that crime, in addition to denying the Srebrenica genocide. His statements were also outraged by prominent writers. Salman Rushdie later claimed that Handke had surprised even his most loyal followers and that he had tried to defend the “genocidal Milosevic regime.” After it was announced that Handke received the Nobel Prize, Rushdie told The Guardian he had nothing to add and stayed true to the thoughts he had expressed at the time.
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