The Nobel Lecture in Literature, 2020

by Louise Glück

Overview

The complete acceptance speech of Louise Glück, winner of the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature.

The Nobel Prize committee selected poet and author Louise Glück "for her unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal." Here is the full text of her Nobel Lecture given on December 7, 2020.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780374604363
Publisher:	Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Publication date:	12/15/2020
Sold by:	Macmillan
Format:	eBook
Pages:	32
Sales rank:	956,115
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

Louise Glück (1943-2023) was the author of two collections of essays and thirteen books of poems. Her many awards included the Nobel Prize in Literature, the National Humanities Medal, the Pulitzer Prize for The Wild Iris, the National Book Award for Faithful and Virtuous Night, the National Book Critics Circle Award for The Triumph of Achilles, the Bollingen Prize for Poetry, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Poems 1962–2012, and the Wallace Stevens Award from the Academy of American Poets. She taught at Yale University and Stanford University and lived in Cambridge, Massachusetts and Montpelier, Vermont.