The Academy of Sweden sweeps everyone away once again, awarding the 2020 Nobel Prize for Literature to an American poetess, professor at Yale, little known internationally: Louise Glück, born in New York in 1943 into a family of Jewish immigrants Hungarians, raised on Long Island. It is not the America of Don DeLillo or Cormac McCarthy, the American writers who, after Philip Roth died, many expect to see receiving the medal from the king of Sweden.
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In the United States Glück is a critically acclaimed author, which has won important awards. During his career he has published twelve anthologies of poems. In 1993 he won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for his collection The Wild Iris («The wild iris», translated into Italian by Massimo Bacigalupo, for the publisher Giano in 2003) in which he gives the floor to the plants and flowers grown in the home garden in Vermont, a domestic mirror of Eden. In his verses there is often a biblical echo and, with good reason, Bacigalupo speaks of “theology in the garden” about this collection
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The collection also came out in Italy Hell, inspired by the myth of Persephone, from the Neapolitan Libreria Dante & Descartes in the translation by Massimo Bacigalupo. In 2014 she won the National Book Award for poetry, while in 2003 she was awarded the title of poet laureate.
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