Louise Glück, the Nobel Prize-winning poet, has died at the age of 80.
The death was confirmed Friday to The Associated Press by Jonathan Galassi, its editor.
Louise Glück won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2020. She was praised for her "unmistakable poetic voice, which with austere beauty makes individual existence universal."
She received the Pulitzer Prize in 1993 for Wild Iris, a book of poems dealing with the themes of suffering, death and rebirth. Other works include "The Seven Ages", "The Triumph of Achilles", "Vita Nova" and the anthology "Poems 1962-2012".
Her other awards include the 2001 Bollingen Prize, the 2008 Wallace Stevens Award, and a 2015 National Medal of the Humanities.
In her creations, Glück was heavily influenced by classical mythology, Shakespeare and Eliot, among others.
Glück was married and divorced twice, first in 1967 to Charles Hertz Jr. and in 1977 to John Dranow, with whom she had a son, Noah.
