Christian Carlos. Peninsula 360 Press.
On his Twitter account, @NobelPrizeannounced this morning that the Nobel Prize in Literature would have been awarded to the poet Louise Glück.
Born in 1943 in New York, the Stockholm-based Swedish Academy noted that the prize was awarded to Glück because of "her unmistakable poetic voice which, through an austere beauty, makes individual life universal".
Glück currently lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and is a professor of English at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut.
The Swedish Academy highlighted the trajectory of Glück, who has published more than ten books and essays on poetry, characterized by the effort Glück imposes on her reading. The themes covered by the American poet range from childhood to family life; the close relationship with parents and siblings with a universal vision, using myths and classic literature that is reflected in most of her work.
The works highlighted by the Swedish Academy of the poet Louise Glück include "Avernus", published in 2006 as "a masterful collection and an avant-garde interpretation of the mythology of Persephone's descent into hell, in the captivity of Hades, the God of Death".
"Another spectacular achievement is Louise Glück's latest collection, Faithful and Virtuous Night, published in 2014," he added. At the time, The New York Times, said this work is one of Glück's best essays, as "knowledge of the future will erase the present."
