American · 1943–2023
Louise Glück won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2020 for "an unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal." The American poet's work is spare, precise, and unsettling—"The Wild Iris" (1992) won the Pulitzer Prize for poems spoken by flowers, a gardener, and a silent god. Glück wrote about mythological figures, domestic life, and the self's interrogation of itself with equal intensity. She served as U.S. Poet Laureate and taught at Yale until her death in 2023.