American poet Louise Gluck, winner of the 2020 Nobel Prize for Literature, poses outside her home in Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S., in this undated handout image obtained by Reuters on December 7, 2020.
© Nobel Prize Outreach/Daniel Ebersole/Handout via REUTERS Acquire Licensing RightsOct 13 (Reuters) - Louise Gluck, a renowned poet who won a Nobel Prize for Literature in 2020, has died at age 80, according to media reports in the United States on Friday that cited her editor.
Drawing comparisons with other authors, the Academy said Gluck resembled 19th-century U.S. poet Emily Dickinson in her "severity and unwillingness to accept simple tenets of faith."
She served as Poet Laureate of the United States in 2003-04 and was awarded the National Humanities Medal by President Barrack Obama in 2016.
Born in New York, Gluck became the 16th woman to win a Nobel Prize for Literature, the literary world's most prestigious award.
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