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Louise Gluck is the author of two collections of essays and thirteen books of poems. Her many awards include the Nobel Prize in Literature, the National Humanities Medal, the Pulitzer Prize for The Wild Iris, the National Book Award for Faithful and Virtuous Night, the National Book Critics Circle Award for The Triumph of Achilles, the Bollingen Prize for Poetry, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Poems 1962-2012, and the Wallace Stevens Award from the Academy of American Poets. She teaches at Yale University and Stanford University and lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
'Glück's challenge, which she elegantly achieves, is to channel her late wisdom into the simple yet surprising language and perspective of children... the themes of sisterhood, family, proximity, and the acquisition of language have long been Glück's hallmarks; here, she has transformed those themes with a shapeshifter's aplomb. Marigold and Rose could be read at bedtime between parents and children -or by anyone needing a masterclass in brief, compact storytelling with resonances for the very wise and the very innocent.' Oluwaseun Olayiwola, The Telegraph 'In lesser hands Marigold and Rose could feel mawkish. But Glück, at 79, hasn’t won most of the major literary prizes out there to mess this up. It's an affecting, alluring book. As soon as I'd finished I read it again.' Susie Mesure, The Spectator 'Glück, in shrinking the world to the size of a pair of blankets inside cribs, manages to gently pack her narrative with feeling... This is a delicate, minor-key book. It addresses, in larval and thus primal form, many of the concerns of Glück's poetry.' Dwight Garner, The New York Times 'Marigold and Rose can be devoured in a single sitting, and that's probably the best way to enter its tonal world, which is strangely hypnotic, in part because the mood never swings to violent intensity, and in part because of the orderly rhythms of Glück's prose...like her poetry, it gains its force from acute observation' Fiona Sampson, The Guardian 'This wry, read-in-a-sitting delight channels the myriad possibilities of fiction with a huge sense of fun.' Justine Jordan, The Guardian Fiction Books of the Year 2022
