Stockholm: The 77-year old American poet Louise Gulick has
been awarded this year’s Nobel Prize in literature. She has previously won
Pulitzer Prize, Bollingen Prize and received presidential medal by former US President
Barack Obama. Gluck was born in 1943 in New York to Beatrice Gluck and Daniel Gluck
and began to write poetry at a very early age. She was frequently told stories
and classic literal works by her parents. During her teenage years, Gluck had
developed anorexia which she described as a challenger and suffered through her
young adult years. Along with anorexia, Gluck began to struggle with mental
illnesses and had received therapy for seven years to overcome the psychological
challengers in her young life.
Gluck frequently uses death, illness, nature in her works
and she had published more than 11 poetry works and many essays. Announcing
Gluck as the winner of the Nobel prize in literature, the Nobel Committee
lauded Gluck for her unmistakable poetic voice and suggested that the public should
read her works. Nobel Committee said that Gluck was not a confessional poet
even though Gluck’s works were greatly influenced by her personal life and
relationships. The world has had seen countless artists whose lives were
wrought with personal problems and Gluck is one of the many of such artists who
overcame a crippling illness and in the end, soared high.
