The poet Louise Glück does not thrive in the spotlight and it took more than two days after the announcement of this year's Nobel Prize in Literature before SVT got to meet the winner.
- I was afraid that my life would be taken away from me and that my friends would start to hate me, she says in an exclusive interview with SVT's Babel about her initial reactions when she received the message.
Louise Glück has undergone two psychoanalyses and the therapy is present in her poetry.
- It is part of my thinking, my experiences, so it is clear that it is in my works.
But you want it to be felt in a subtle way, she says in an exclusive interview with SVT's Babel.
"Realized I was going to die"
The first time the literature laureate went into therapy was as an eighteen-year-old, when she was ill with anorexia.
- Suddenly I realized that I was going to die.
- It was Sunday.
I went up to my parents bedroom.
Of course, they were a very difficult time for them, I said I think I need help.
It turned out that my mother had found a psychoanalyst.
Louise Glücks never finished her last year of high school but instead went five days a week to the psychologist.
- I developed as a writer during that psychoanalysis and I dedicated one of my books to my psychoanalyst.