Celebrated Nobel-winning poet Louise Gluck has died aged 80, her editor has confirmed.
Her loss of life was confirmed on Friday by Jonathan Galassi, her editor at Farrar, Straus & Giroux.
According to her writer, the US poet and Pulitzer Prize-winner died of most cancers at her residence in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
In a profession spanning greater than 60 years, Gluck turned some of the critically acclaimed poets and essayists in fashionable America.
She was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2020, turning into the primary American poet to be honoured with the celebrated literary prize since TS Eliot in 1948.
Gluck was identified for her candour in exploring household and childhood all through her work.
When awarding her the Nobel, the Swedish Academy, which is chargeable for choosing the literature prize winner, stated her poetry had an “unmistakable voice” and “austere beauty”.
Alongside the Nobel Prize, the US poet was awarded Pulitzer Prize for her poetry assortment The Wild Iris in 1993 and served as Poet Laureate of the United States in 2003-2004.
Poet Tracy Ok Smith, additionally a Pulitzer winner, stated in a press release that Gluck’s poetry had “saved” her many occasions.
Gluck was awarded the National Humanities Medal by President Barack Obama in 2015 for her “decades of powerful lyric poetry that defies all attempts to label it definitively”.
Throughout her profession she printed greater than a dozen books of poetry, as nicely a number of volumes of essays and the transient prose fable, Marigold And Rose.
She additionally taught at quite a few prestigious universities together with Stanford and Yale.
Gluck was married and divorced twice and had a son, Noah.
Source: information.sky.com”