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Louise Glück

1943 - 2023

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Louise Elisabeth Glück ( GLIK; 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". Her other awards include the Pulitzer Prize, National Humanities Medal, National Book Award, National Book Critics Circle Award, and Bollingen Prize. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Louise Glück has received more than 1,570,821 page views. Her biography is available in 82 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Louise Glück is the 333rd most popular writer (up from 5,238th in 2019), the 310th most popular biography from United States (up from 10,225th in 2019) and the 32nd most popular American Writer.

Louise Glück is an American poet and essayist renowned for her poignant and introspective poetry. Born in 1943, she has received widespread acclaim for her work, which is known for its emotional depth, technical precision, and exploration of themes like human suffering, family dynamics, and nature. Glück has been honored with numerous awards, including the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and the National Book Award. In 2020, she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, recognized for her unmistakable poetic voice that, with austere beauty, makes individual existence universal. Her position as a major figure in contemporary literature is marked by a distinguished teaching career and numerous influential poetry collections.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Louise Glück ranks 333 out of 5,755Before her are Arthur Miller, André Malraux, Mikhail Lermontov, Ali-Shir Nava'i, Michael Ende, and Pierre Beaumarchais. After her are Gerhart Hauptmann, Gao Xingjian, Napoleon Hill, Philip Roth, Czesław Miłosz, and Sayyid Qutb.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1943, Louise Glück ranks 21Before her are Ben Kingsley, Joe Pesci, Toto Cutugno, Albano Carrisi, Roger Waters, and Sadako Sasaki. After her are Joseph Stiglitz, Jocelyn Bell Burnell, Christopher Walken, Tarja Halonen, Howard Gardner, and Horst Köhler. Among people deceased in 2023, Louise Glück ranks 14Before her are Jeff Beck, Ted Kaczynski, Luis Suárez, Jane Birkin, Toto Cutugno, and Bobby Charlton. After her are Just Fontaine, Kenzaburō Ōe, Martti Ahtisaari, Fernando Botero, Giorgio Napolitano, and Harald zur Hausen.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Louise Glück ranks 310 out of 18,182Before her are Grover Cleveland (1837), Chuck Berry (1926), Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (1947), Arthur Miller (1915), Warren G. Harding (1865), and Jean Seberg (1938). After her are Emily Greene Balch (1867), Susan Sarandon (1946), Napoleon Hill (1883), John Stith Pemberton (1831), Philip Roth (1933), and Buffalo Bill (1846).

Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Louise Glück ranks 32Before her are Margaret Mitchell (1900), Mario Puzo (1920), Raymond Chandler (1888), Jack Kerouac (1922), Ezra Pound (1885), and Arthur Miller (1915). After her are Napoleon Hill (1883), Philip Roth (1933), O. Henry (1862), James Fenimore Cooper (1789), Truman Capote (1924), and Susan Sontag (1933).