The Nobel in Literature awarded to American poet Louise Glück

The Nobel Prize for Literature was awarded this Thursday to the American Louise Glück for “His characteristic poetic voice which with austere beauty makes individual existence universal”, announced the Swedish Academy by awarding the prize, always accompanied by a laconic motivation.

Louise Glück, born in 1943 in New York, has published twelve collections as well as essays on poetry. She is an English professor at Yale University.

Louise Glück is considered by many to be one of America’s most talented contemporary poets. The poet has written extensively on the themes of loneliness, family relationships, divorce and even death. The poet Robert Hass described Louise Glück as “One of the purest and most accomplished lyric poets who write today”.

Little translated in France

Louise Glück won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1993 for her collection The Wild Iris. She is also the recipient of the National Book Critics Circle Award (The Triumph of Achilles) as well as the Academy of American Poets award, of which she is a member. In 2008, she received the Wallace Stevens Award, and in 2015, she received the Gold Medal for Poetry from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

Averno (2006) is his masterful collection, a visionary interpretation of the myth of the captive Persephone’s descent into hell from Hades, the god of death. Another spectacular achievement is his latest collection, “Nuit fidèle et virteuse”.

In French, the translation of this poet has so far remained confidential, due to lack of publication in volume. It is limited to specialized journals. She dedicated one of her poems to Joan of Arc in 1976.

Very feminine Nobel 2020s

Two years after the Polish Olga Tokarczuk, Louise Glück is the 16th woman to be awarded the prize for a very feminine Nobel 2020 vintage.

With three laureates at the Nobel Scientific, this season could break the record of female laureates (five in 2009), while peace on Friday and the economy on Monday remain to be awarded.

After a series of scandals or controversies that have tarnished the world’s most famous literary prize for three years, the direction this year’s Nobel would take was particularly unpredictable, critics said.

Last year, the 2019 prize was awarded to the Austrian writer Peter Handke, with the sulphurous pro-Milosevic positions, causing a very lively controversy, adding to a sex scandal that had torn the Academy three years ago. , causing the historic postponement of the 2018 price.

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