NOBEL FOR LOUISE GLÜCK Joy in the raw wind of the new world This year’s Nobel Prize for Literature has been awarded to American poet Louise Glück, who has been recognised for “her unmistakable poetic voice that, with austere beauty, makes individual existence universal”, said the Swedish Academy overseeing the award
Snowdrops Do you know what I was, how I lived? You know what despair is; then winter should have meaning for you. I did not expect to survive, earth suppressing me. I didn’t expect to waken again, to feel in damp earth my body able to respond again, remembering after so long how to open again in the cold light of earliest spring – afraid, yes, but among you again crying yes risk joy in the raw wind of the new world. (U jednoj od svojih najhvaljenijih zbirki Wild Iris iz 1992, za koju je nagrađena Pulicerovom nagradom, opisuje čudesni povratak života posle zime u pesmi Visibabe) / (In one of her most lauded collections, The Wild Iris (1992), for which she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize, she describes the miraculous return of life after winter in the poem ”Snowdrops”):
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EVEN IN THEIR HOME COUN TRIES, FEW POETS ACHIEVE true fame within their own lifetimes. But Louise Glück has been awarded almost every prize an American poet might hope to receive. She even won the Pu- litzer Prize, back in 1993, while this October she was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. e chair of the Nobel prize com- mittee, Anders Olsson, praised the po- et’s candid and uncompromising voice, which is “full of humour and biting wit”, comparing her to Emily Dickinson. Her poetry focuses on the pain- ful reality of being human, while her Ararat collection was described in the New York Times a few years ago as “the most brutal and sorrow-filled book of American poetry published in the last 25 years”. Sadness and grief are certain- ly frequent parts of what she writes - yet she’s seldom a depressing writer. Born in 1943 in New York, Glück today lives in Cambridge, Massachu- setts. Apart from her writing, she is a professor of English at Yale Universi- ty. She made her debut in 1968 with Firstborn , and was soon acclaimed as one of the most prominent poets in American contemporary literature. She hasn’t been widely read outside the U.S. to date, but now - at the age of 77 - Glück can look forward to many new readers, and they can look for- ward to discovering a poet of insight and humanity.
Glikova je četvrta žena koja je osvojila Nobelovu nagradu za književnost od 2010. godine, a tek 16. od 1901, kada je nagrada počela da se dodeljuje Glück is the fourth woman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature since 2010, but only the 16 th to have won it since Nobel prizes first began being awarded in 1901
Osim što se bavi pisanjem, profesor- ka je engleskog jezika na Univerzite- tu Jejl. Debitovala je 1968. zbirkom Firstborn , da bi ubrzo bila proglašena jednom od najistaknutijih pesnikinja američke savremene književnosti. Ni- su je mnogo poznavali van Sjedinjenih Američkih Država, da bi danas, u 77. godini, mogla da se raduje novim či- taocima. Mi smo u još boljoj poziciji, nestrpljivi da otkrijemo pesnika takve pronicljivosti i duhovitosti.
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