Literature

Poetry

Swedish DEN RÖDA VALLMON Det allra bästa är att inte ha några tankar. Känslor: åh, de har jag; de styr mig. I himlen har jag en herre vid namn solen, jag öppnar mig för honom och visar elden i mitt eget hjärta, eld lik hans närvaro. För vad är en sådan härlighet om inte ett…

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Nobel Lecture

Louise Glück’s Nobel Prize lecture was recorded on 27 March 2023 in Berkeley, California, USA. English When I was a small child of, I think, about five or six, I staged a competition in my head, a contest to decide the greatest poem in the world. There were two finalists: Blake’s “The Little Black Boy”…

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Poetry

English THE RED POPPY The great thingis not havinga mind. Feelings:oh, I have those; theygovern me. I havea lord in heavencalled the sun, and openfor him, showing himthe fire of my own heart, firelike his presence.What could such glory beif not a heart? Oh my brothers and sisters,were you like me once, long ago,before you…

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Interview

Telephone interview, October 2020 https://youtu.be/0FIFQR56TyQ “It’s too new … it’s too early here” Telephone interview with Louise Glück immediately following the announcement of the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature on 8 October 2020. The interviewer is Adam Smith, Chief Scientific Officer of Nobel Media. “My first thought was ‘I won’t have any friends,’ because most…

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Prize announcement

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-6f1IPOm5c Announcement of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2020 to Louise Glück, presented by Mats Malm, Permanent Secretary of the Swedish Academy, on 8 October 2020. After the announcement Anders Olsson, Chairman of the Nobel Committee for Literature, presented the laureate in Swedish and English and answered questions from the audience.

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Bio-bibliography

Swedish Biobibliografi Den amerikanska poeten Louise Glück föddes 1943 i New York och är bosatt i Cambridge i Massachusetts. Hon har utöver sitt skrivande också varit verksam som lärare, numera vid Yale University i New Haven, Connecticut. Hon har alltsedan sin debut 1968 med Firstborn hört till de mest prominenta lyrikerna i den amerikanska samtidslitteraturen…

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Bio-bibliography

English Biobibliography The American poet Louise Glück was born 1943 in New York and lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Apart from her writing she is a professor of English at Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut. She made her debut in 1968 with Firstborn, and was soon acclaimed as one of the most prominent poets in American…

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