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Louise Glück

October 2023

  • Louise Glück.

    Louise Glück: a poet who never shied away from silence, pain or fear

  • Louise Glück in December 2020.

    Louise Glück, Nobel prize-winning poet, dies at 80

December 2022

  • Annie Ernaux, winner of the 2022 Nobel prize in literature

    The unconscious suffering of the replacement child

  • Boy throwing a paper aeroplane at sunset.

    Louise Glück and the trauma of being a replacement child

November 2022

  • Louise Glück.

    Book of the day
    Marigold and Rose by Louise Glück review – the babies’ tale

    The Nobel prize-winning poet’s first novel is a subversive, sophisticated vision of the first year in the lives of twin girls

August 2022

  • Louise Glück.

    First fiction work by Nobel prize-winning poet Louise Glück to be published in UK

    The 64-page ‘prose narrative’ Marigold and Rose: A Fiction – about twins in the first year of life – will be published in October

April 2022

  • Derek Jarman in 1992 in the garden of his home Prospect Cottage in Dungeness.

    Top 10s
    Top 10 books about gardening

    Going beyond how-to guides, these books encompass fiction, history, poetry and ecology to show how gardens can be places of liberation as well as beauty

October 2021

  • Simon Armitage.

    Poetry roundup
    The best recent poetry – review roundup

    The Owl and the Nightingale, translated by Simon Armitage; Winter Recipes from the Collective by Louise Glück; Deep Wheel Orcadia by Harry Josephine Giles; Five Books by Ana Blandiana; The sea is spread and cleaved and furled by Ahren Warner

August 2021

  • Louise Glück outside her home in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

    Louise Glück: Poems 1962-2020 review – a grand introduction to the Nobel prize winner

  • View of Peckham Rye Common at sunset with poppies in the foreground

    Carol Rumens's poem of the week
    Poem of the week: The Red Poppy by Louise Glück

December 2020

  • American poet Gluck reacts after winning the 2020 Nobel Prize for Literature in Cambridge<br>American poet Louise Gluck reacts after winning the 2020 Nobel Prize for Literature, at her home in Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S. October 8, 2020. REUTERS/Katherine Taylor

    Nobel literature prize winner Louise Glück reveals 'panic' in acceptance speech

    On Monday it was also announced that the poet will publish a new collection, Winter Recipes from the Collective, in 2021

October 2020

  • Louise Glück

    ‘She never stops making demands on herself’: how US poet Louise Glück won the Nobel

    A writer of wisdom and grit, Glück sets a new course for each collection
  • Barack Obama,Louise Gluck<br>FILE - In this Thursday, Sept. 22, 2016 file photo, President Barack Obama embraces poet Louise Gluck before awarding her the 2015 National Humanities Medal during a ceremony in the East Room of the White House, in Washington. The 2020 Nobel Prize for literature has been awarded to American poet Louise Gluck “for her unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal.” The prize was announced Thursday Oct. 8, 2020 in Stockholm by Mats Malm, the permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)

    Louise Glück: Colm Tóibín on a brave and truthful Nobel winner

    Her brilliantly controlled poems offer a picture of the world as a struggle between ordeal and wonder
    • Louise Glück: where to start with an extraordinary Nobel winner

    • Louise Glück wins the 2020 Nobel prize in literature – as it happened

    • Louise Glück wins the 2020 Nobel prize in literature

August 2014

  • Starry night

    Carol Rumens's poem of the week
    Poem of the week: A Work of Fiction by Louise Glück

    Glück's prose-poem combines meditation with anecdote as she remembers the moment of loss after finishing a novel, writes Carol Rumens

June 2014

  • Jeremy Paxman poetry prize

    Jeremy Paxman says poets must start engaging with ordinary people

    Outgoing Newsnight presenter, judging Forward prize for poetry, says poetry has 'rather connived at its own irrelevance'

October 2012

  • Assumption by Titian, Frari venice

    The inspiration for The Testament of Mary

    She is the most famous mother in history, yet her story is unknown. A new novel voices the grief-filled thoughts of Mary, as she pieces together the events that led to the death of her son, Jesus. Its writer, Colm Tóibín, describes the origins of the book. Read an extract here

June 2010

  • Illustration of woman hanging out washing

    A Village Life by Louise Glück

    Charles Bainbridge admires vignettes of Mediterranean life
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