Louise Gluck, US poet and 2020 Nobel laureate, dies at 80

Louise Gluck, the American poet and 2020 Nobel laureate in literature, has died, a Yale University spokeswoman told AFP on Friday.

Gluck, who was 80 and most recently taught at Yale as a poetry professor, was known for the austerity of her writing.

She was the 16th woman to win the Nobel Prize in literature.