露易丝·格丽克

山东 李全忠

美国诗人露易丝·格丽克是2020年诺贝尔文学奖得主，“她用无可辩驳的诗意嗓音，以朴实的美感使个人的存在变得普遍”。题材文学

体裁人物传记

文章词数 难度 建议用时324 ★★★★ 6 分钟

难词探意

1. chapbook /'tʃæpbʊk/ n. 小册子；廉价书

2. critic /'krɪtɪk/ n. 批评家；评论家

Louise Glück was born in New York City on April 22, 1943, and grew up on Long Island. She is the author of numerous books of poetry,including Faithful and Virtuous Night(2014), which won the 2014 National Book Award in Poetry; Averno (2006),a finalist for the 2006 National Book Award in Poetry; and Vita Nova (1999), winner of Boston Book Review's Bingham Poetry Prize and The New Yorker's Book Award in Poetry. In 2004,Sarabande Books released her six-part poem October as a chapbook.

Her other award-winning books include The Wild Iris (1992), which received the Pulitzer Prize and the Poetry Society of America's William Carlos Williams Award;Ararat (1990), for which she 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.

William Logan, in a 2009 Times review of A Village Life, called Glück “perhaps the most popular literary poet in America”. “Her audience may not be as large as others',” he wrote, “but part of her fame is that her poems are like secret messages for the initiated.”

As the winner of the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature, Glück was elected a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets in 1999. In the fall of 2003, she was appointed as the Library of Congress's twelfth poet laureate consultant in poetry. She served as a judge of the Yale Series of Younger Poets from 2003 to 2010.

In 2008, Glück was selected to receive the Wallace Stevens Award for mastery in the art of poetry. Her collection, Poems 1962-2012, was awarded the 2013 Los Angeles Times Book Prize. In 2015, she was awarded the Gold Medal for Poetry from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Currently, Glück is a writer-inresidence at Yale University.

1. Which of the following books was published the earliest?

A. Averno.

B. October.

C. Vita Nova.

D. Faithful and Virtuous Night.

2. What does the second paragraph mainly talk about?

A. Louise Glück's early school.

B. Louise Glück's main works.

C. Louise Glück's writing skills.

D. Louise Glück's writing background.

3. What was William Logan's attitude to Louise Glück's poems?

A. He thought highly of them.

B. He opposed them strongly.

C. He disapproved of some.

D. He ignored them completely.

4. Where does Glück work now?

A. At Long Island.

B. In Los Angeles.

C. In New York City.

D. At Yale University.

Difficult sentence

“Her audience may not be as large as others',” he wrote, “but part of her fame is that her poems are like secret messages for the initiated.”

【翻译】_______________________________

【点石成金】本句为一个并列复合句，but连接两个并列句，that引导的是一个表语从句。

诺贝尔文学奖

诺贝尔文学奖（Nobel Prize in Literature）是根据诺贝尔1895年的遗嘱而设立的五个诺贝尔奖之一，该奖旨在奖励在文学领域创作出具有理想倾向的最佳作品的人。

1901年诺贝尔文学奖首次颁发。 1931年埃利克·阿克塞尔·卡尔费尔德死后获得了诺贝尔文学奖，他是第一位死后追授的获奖者。2012年莫言获得诺贝尔文学奖， 成为第一个获得该奖的中国籍作家。 诺贝尔文学奖的甄选委员会通常在每年10月公布获奖者。 颁奖典礼于每年12月10日， 即诺贝尔逝世周年纪念日，在瑞典斯德哥尔摩举行，并由瑞典国王亲自颁奖。

2020年10月8日，2020年诺贝尔文学奖被授予露易丝·格丽克，获奖理由是“她用无可辩驳的诗意噪音，以朴实的美感使个人的存在变得普遍”。