Summary: <strong>Louise Glück</strong>, in full <strong>Louise Elisabeth Glück</strong>, (born April 22, 1943, <a href="https://www.britannica.com/place/New-York-City" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">New York</a>, New York, U.S.), American poet whose willingness to confront the horrible, the difficult, and the painful resulted in a body of work characterized by insight and a severe lyricism. In 2020 she was awarded the <a href="https://www.britannica.com/topic/Nobel-Prize" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Nobel Prize</a> in Literature, cited “for her unmistakable poetic voice that with <a href="https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/austere" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">austere</a> beauty makes individual existence universal.” <em>- Britannica.com </em><br><hr><p style="color:grey;font-size:0.75em;"> See <a style="color:grey;" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://acast.com/privacy">acast.com/privacy</a> for privacy and opt-out information.</p>
