露易丝·格丽克(Louise Gluck),1943年出生于纽约,现居马萨诸塞州剑桥市。是美国当代著名女诗人,美国桂冠诗人(2003-2004),曾获普利策奖、国家图书奖、全国书评界奖、波林根奖等。除了写作,她还是耶鲁大学的英语教授。
2020年10月8日,露易丝·格丽克获得2020年诺贝尔文学奖,获奖理由是“因为她那无可辩驳的诗意般的声音,用朴素的美使个人的存在变得普遍”。 [1-2]
人物经历
编辑露易丝·格丽克1943年生于一个匈牙利裔犹太人家庭,离开高中后曾进入莎拉劳伦斯学院、哥伦比亚大学,但均未毕业。1968年出版处女诗集《头生子》,至今著有十二本诗集和一本诗随笔集,遍获各种诗歌奖项,包括普利策奖、国家图书奖、全国书评界奖、美国诗人学院华莱士·斯蒂文斯奖、波林根奖等。
格丽克的诗长于对心理隐微之处的把握,早期作品具有很强的自传性,后来的作品则通过人神对质,以及对神话人物的心理分析,导向人的存在根本问题,爱、死亡、生命、毁灭。自《阿勒山》开始,她的每部诗集都是精巧的织体,可作为一首长诗或一部组诗。从《阿勒山》和《野鸢尾》开始,格丽克成了“必读的诗人”。
个人作品
编辑诗集随笔
《头生子》(Firstborn),1968
《沼泽地上的房子》(The House on Marshland),1975
《下降的形象》(Descending Figure),1980
《阿基利斯的胜利》(The Triumph of Achilles),1985
《阿勒山》(Ararat),1990
《野鸢尾》(The Wild Iris),1992
《证据与理论》(Proofs and Theories: Essays on Poetry),1994,诗随笔
《最早的四本诗集》(The First Four Books of Poems),1995,合订出版
《草场》(Meadowlands),1996
《新生》(Vita Nova),1999
《七个时期》(The Seven Ages),2001
《阿弗尔诺》(Averno),2006
《乡村生活》(A Village Life),2009
中文版本
2016年,格丽克诗合集《月光的合金》《直到世界反映了灵魂最深层的需要》由世纪文景/上海人民出版社出版。
《直到世界反映了灵魂最深层的需要》完整收录了格丽克的《阿弗尔诺》(新英格兰笔会奖)和《村居生活》(格林芬诗歌奖短名单)两本诗集;并收录早期五本诗集《头生子》(美国诗歌学会诗人奖)、《沼泽地上的房屋》、《下降的形象》、《阿基里斯的胜利》(全国书评界奖)、《阿勒山》(国会图书馆丽贝卡·博比特全国诗歌奖)的精选之作。
获奖记录
编辑人物评价
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- 参考资料
Glück was born in New York City and grew up on Long Island. Her father helped invent the X-Acto Knife. Glück graduated in 1961 from George W. Hewlett High School, in Hewlett, New York. She attended Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, New York, and Columbia University, New York City. Glück won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1993 for her collection The Wild Iris. Glück is the recipient of the National Book Critics Circle Award (Triumph of Achilles), the Academy of American Poet’s Prize (Firstborn), as well as numerous Guggenheim fellowships. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and was previously a Senior Lecturer in English at Williams College in Williamstown, MA. Glück currently teaches at Yale University.
Works
Glück is the author of eleven books of poetry, including Averno (2006); The Seven Ages (2001); Vita Nova (1999), which was awarded The New Yorker's Book Award in Poetry; Meadowlands (1996); The Wild Iris (1992), which received the Pulitzer Prize and the Poetry Society of America's William Carlos Williams Award; Ararat (1990), which received the Library of Congress's Rebekah Johnson Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry; and The Triumph of Achilles (1985), which received the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Boston Globe Literary Press Award, and the Poetry Society of America's Melville Kane Award. The First Four Books collects her early poetry.
Louise Glück has also published a collection of essays, Proofs and Theories: Essays on Poetry (1994), which won the PEN/Martha Albrand Award for Nonfiction. Sarabande Books published in chapbook form a new, six-part poem, October, in 2004. In 2001 Yale University awarded Louise Glück its Bollingen Prize in Poetry, given biennially for a poet's lifetime achievement in his or her art. Her other honors include the Lannan Literary Award for Poetry, the Sara Teasdale Memorial Prize (Wellesley, 1986), the MIT Anniversary Medal (2000), and fellowships from the Guggenheim and Rockefeller foundations and from the National Endowment for the Arts.
She is a member of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, and in 1999 was elected a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets. In 2003 she was named as the new judge for the Yale Series of Younger Poets and will serve in that position through 2007. Glück was appointed the US Poet Laureate from 2003-2004, replacing Billy Collins.
Bibliography
Poetry
Firstborn (New American Library, 1968)
The House on Marshland (Ecco Press, 1975)
The Garden (Antaeus, 1976)
Descending Figure (Ecco Press, 1980)
The Triumph of Achilles (Ecco Press, 1985)
Ararat (Ecco Press, 1990)
The Wild Iris (Ecco Press, 1992)
The First Four Books of Poems (Ecco Press, 1995)
Meadowlands (Ecco Press, 1997)
Vita Nova (Ecco Press, 1999)
The Seven Ages (Ecco Press, 2001)
Averno (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006)
Prose
Proofs and Theories: Essays on Poetry (Ecco Press, 1994)
References
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