露易絲·格麗克

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美國詩人露易絲·格麗克是2020年諾貝爾文學獎得主，“她用無可辯駁的詩意嗓音，以樸實的美感使個人的存在變得普遍”。題材文學

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難詞探意

1. chapbook /'t??pb?k/ n. 小冊子；廉價書

2. critic /'kr?t?k/ n. 批評家；評論家

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.”

【翻譯】_______________________________

【點石成金】本句為一個并列復合句，but連接兩個并列句，that引導的是一個表語從句。

諾貝爾文學獎

諾貝爾文學獎（Nobel Prize in Literature）是根據諾貝爾1895年的遺囑而設立的五個諾貝爾獎之一，該獎旨在獎勵在文學領域創作出具有理想傾向的最佳作品的人。

1901年諾貝爾文學獎首次頒發。 1931年埃利克·阿克塞爾·卡爾費爾德死后獲得了諾貝爾文學獎，他是第一位死后追授的獲獎者。2012年莫言獲得諾貝爾文學獎， 成為第一個獲得該獎的中國籍作家。 諾貝爾文學獎的甄選委員會通常在每年10月公布獲獎者。 頒獎典禮于每年12月10日， 即諾貝爾逝世周年紀念日，在瑞典斯德哥爾摩舉行，并由瑞典國王親自頒獎。

2020年10月8日，2020年諾貝爾文學獎被授予露易絲·格麗克，獲獎理由是“她用無可辯駁的詩意噪音，以樸實的美感使個人的存在變得普遍”。