Gluck was born in New York and grew up in Long Island, the United States. He has already been awarded important literary awards: In 1993 he won the Pulitzer Poetry Prize for his poem The Wild Iris. In addition, he has received the National Book Critics Circle Award by Triumph of Achilles and the American Poets Academy Award by Firstborn, as well as numerous Guggenheim scholarships.

In addition to the naked tone highlighted by the Swedish academy, the themes of Glück’s poetry should be highlighted: experts say they have completed a work focused on trauma, which they have written throughout their career on death, loss, exclusion, the failure of relationships and attempts at healing and innovation.

The work of this writer, who has had a broad trajectory since the late 1960s, is not translated into Basque.