NOBEL PRIZE FOR LITERATURE LUISE GLUCK

SURPRISE Who is the Nobel Prize winner for literature? Few have heard of Louise Gluck .... Her unmistakable poetic voice makes individual experience universal with its strict beauty, the Swedish Academy announced. By: Karmela DevčićPosted: October 08, 2020 1:50 pm Louise Gluck Louise Gluck Robin Marchant / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / AFP Facebook Twitter Messenger E-mail This year's winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature is the American poet Louise Glück , very little known in our country, even among circles familiar with poetry. None of her collections have been translated into Croatian (she has published fourteen). Nevertheless, the poet and translator Miloš Đurđević translated a selection from several collections of poetry by Louise Glück for the Third Program of Croatian Radio about twenty years ago. "I think it was later published in one of the magazines, but I'm really not sure anymore," says Djurdjevic. For the past few decades, Louise Glück has been at the forefront of contemporary American poetry and has been considered, since the 1970s, one of the leading voices, the most original, among contemporary poets. Glück has so far had a relatively small circle of readers, but often very ardent ones, well versed in her opus. She herself as an author never had the need to expand that circle. How did the not-so-popular poet receive the news of the Nobel Prize? "She was surprised when we called her, but as far as I understood, pleasantly surprised. It was very early in the morning, ”Anders Olsson, chairman of the Nobel Prize for Literature, told reporters, who followed this year's Nobel Prize in a half-empty hall from a prescribed physical distance. In one of the poems translated by Đurđević, talking about a plum in bloom, Glück writes: In the spring with black branches of plums in bloom the thrush sends its established a message of survival. Where does this happiness come from which the neighbor's daughter aptly reads in that song? She sits all afternoon in the thin shade of a plum, and a gentle wind its immature wing fills with bloom, greenish-white and white, without any trace, nothing like it fruits that will, in summer, enroll RELATED NEWS Swedish Academy in Stockholm NOBEL PRIZE Who will receive the most prestigious literary award? Bookmakers give Murakami and Atwood the best chances HE DIDN'T EXPECT IT Who the hell is calling in the middle of the night? The answer surprised him: 'Stockholm here, you won the Nobel!' deciphered dark spots into stronger winds. Miloš Đurđević says about Louise Glück's writing: "Her poetic expression is devoid of rhetorical embellishments, metaphors and similar effects to the maximum, it concentrates on the very essence, on the intimate world, it is closed. She is a poet who, from her beginnings, has turned to the introspective current in American poetry, which is very confessional. Louise Glück has developed a recognizable voice in which her ‘I’ is not present at all, which is in the spirit of that conditionally speaking confessional lyricism in American poetry. It is a poetics that has a whole set of procedures and understandings of poetry where personality is what needs to be overcome, the idea is not to impose personal emotions and character in poetry, to overcome it, so that only then there will be more refined areas, only then did he build personal poetics and a way of expression. " In her poems there is a frequent connection with mythological themes, with transcendental motifs. As a teenager, she suffered from anorexia, which she wrestled with in her twenties. She once commented that the illness was the result of a struggle for independence from the controlling mother, and also linked the illness to the death of her older sister who died in infancy, at a time when Glück had not even been born. In high school, she embarked on psychoanalysis, a few months later she dropped out of school with the intention of devoting herself entirely to therapy and recovery. Still, she managed to graduate on time. She spent seven years in therapy, which she says helped her overcome the disease and showed her how to think functionally. Due to her illness, she did not enroll in full-time studies, but attended poetry classes and workshops at Columbia University, which offered the program to irregular students. For the past twenty years, she has taught literature, creative poetry writing, and contemporary poetry at Williams College, Massachusetts. She is the child of Hungarian Jewish immigrants, her father wanted to become a writer, but in his life he was engaged in trade. She was born in New York in 1943. She published her debut collection "Firstborn" in 1968. The next one was not until 1975, "The House on Marshland". The jury, announcing this year's laureate, said that she was awarded for "an infallible poetic voice that makes individual experience universal with its strict beauty." Anders Olsson, chairman of the Nobel Prize for Literature, highlighted the author's "honest and uncompromising" voice, comparing her to Emily Dickinson. The committee particularly highlighted the song “Snowdrops” from her Pulitzer Prize-winning collection “The Wild Iris” (1992) in which it evokes the return of life after winter. Glück is the first American woman in 27 years to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature. So far, in addition to the aforementioned collections, she has also published “Ararat” (1990), “The Seven Ages” (2001), “Averno” (2006), “A Village Life” (2009) and, most recently, “ Faithful and Virtuous Night ”(2014). She has also published collections of essays on poetry “Proofs and Theories” (1994) and “American Originality” (2017). 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