Louise Glück wins National Book Award for Poetry

Louise Glück, adjunct professor of English and editor of the Yale Series of Younger Poets 2003-2010, has received a 2014 National Book Award for her own book of poetry, “Faithful and Virtuous Night.”

Louise Glück, adjunct professor of English and editor of the Yale Series of Younger Poets 2003-2010, has received a 2014 National Book Award for her own book of poetry, “Faithful and Virtuous Night.”

Louise Glück

Glück, the Rosenkrantz Writer in Residence, is the author of 10 books of poetry. She has bee awarded the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the William Carlos Williams Award, the Bobbitt National Poetry Prize, the Ambassador’s Award, and Yale’s Bollingen Prize for her poetry, as well as the PEN/Martha Albrand Award for Nonfiction. Her book “Vita Nova” won the first annual New Yorker Readers Award.

The judges described “Faithful and Virtuous Night” as “a story of adventure, an encounter with the unknown, a knight’s undaunted journey into the kingdom of death” and said the work “tells a single story, but the parts are mutable and the great sweep of its narrative mysterious and fateful, heartbreaking, and charged with wonder.”

Read a Q&A with Glück about her award-winning work.

In related news: Pulitzer Prize-winning author Marilynne Robinson — a finalist for the 2014 National Book Prize for her novel “Lila” — will speak on campus at 5:30 p.m. on Thursday, Dec. 4 at the Divinity School, 409 Prospect St. Her talk, “The Givenness of Things,” is part of the Yale Literature & Spirituality Series, presented by the Institute of Sacred Music in collaboration with the Yale Divinity Student Book Supply. The public is invited.

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