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Louise Glück

American poet and Nobel laureate (1943–2023)

Louise Elisabeth Glück (GLIK;^[1]^[2] April 22, 1943 – October 13, 2023) was an American poet and essayist. She won the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature, whose judges praised "her unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal".^[3] Her other awards include the Pulitzer Prize, National Humanities Medal, National Book Award, National Book Critics Circle Award, and Bollingen Prize. From 2003 to 2004, she was Poet Laureate of the United States.

Glück was born in New York City and raised on Long Island. She began to suffer from anorexia nervosa while in high school and later overcame the illness. She attended Sarah Lawrence College and Columbia University but did not obtain a degree. In addition to being an author, she taught poetry at several academic institutions.

Glück is often described as an autobiographical poet; her work is known for its emotional intensity and for frequently drawing on mythology or nature imagery to meditate on personal experi

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Louise Glück

Louise Glück was born in New York, New York, on April 22, 1943, and grew up on Long Island. She is the author of numerous books of poetry, including Faithful and Virtuous Night (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2014), which won the 2014 National Book Award in Poetry; Averno (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2006), a finalist for the 2006 National Book Award in Poetry; and Vita Nova (Ecco Press, 1999), winner of Boston Book Review’s Bingham Poetry Prize and The New Yorker’s Book Award in Poetry. In 2004, Sarabande Books released her six-part poem “October” as a chapbook.

Glück’s other award-winning books include The Wild Iris (Ecco Press, 1992), which received the Pulitzer Prize and the Poetry Society of America’s William Carlos Williams Award; Ararat (Ecco Press, 1990; Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2025), for which she received the Library of Congress’s Rebekah Johnson Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry; and The Triumph of Achilles (Ecco Press, 1985), which received the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Boston Globe Literary Press Award, and the Poetry So

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Louise Glück

With a strong presence of both Jewish and non-Jewish sources, it is intriguing to parse out Glück’s work vis-à-vis the broader genealogy of Jewish American poetry. Glück, who grew up on Long Island, was born into a Jewish family but remembers “a rudimentary Jewish upbringing. We lived in a Jewish suburb, but Jewish practice was, as I remember, casual. We all celebrated Christmas, sans tree” (Morris, 67). Glück states moreover that she “rebelled against a religious education [that was] in my parents’ view, the expendable item” (Morris, 67). Such a statement about the family’s lack of identification with Jewish tradition, certainly traditional Jewish religious rituals, reflects an attitude frequently found among Jewish American poets. Glück’s observation evokes, for example, Muriel Rukeyser (1913-1980), a Jewish American poet from a German-Jewish background, who wrote in an essay entitled “Under Forty,” “There was not a trace of Jewish culture that I could feel – no stories, no songs, no special food…” Rukeyser and Glück are in keeping with other Jewish American po