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Also Known As	Louise Elisabeth Glück
Born	April 22, 1943 • New York City • New York
Died	October 13, 2023 (aged 80) • Cambridge • Massachusetts
Awards And Honors	Pulitzer Prize • poet laureate • Nobel Prize (2020) • Bollingen Prize (2001)
Notable Works	“A Village Life” • “American Originality” • “Ararat” • “Averno” • “Descending Figure” • “Faithful and Virtuous Night” • “Firstborn” • “Marigold and Rose” • “Meadowlands” • “Proofs and Theories” • “The House on Marshland” • “The Seven Ages” • “The Triumph of Achilles” • “The Wild Iris”