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Tomas Tranströmer

Also known as Tomas Gösta Tranströmer

Swedish poet, psychologist and translator (1931-2015)

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Tomas Tranströmer was a Swedish poet, psychologist, and translator who lived from 1931 to 2015, and is considered one of the most important literary figures of the 20th century. His work matters because he brought a distinctive voice to modern poetry, blending psychological insight with vivid imagery, and his influence extended across multiple languages through his translation work.

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Person · Open Library

Born: 2015-03-26
Works: 102

Top works

विश्व कविता संचयन
Para vivos y muertos
El árbol y la nube
Blue House
Visión de la memoria

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type: Person
Gender: Male
Origin: Sweden
Active from: 1931-04-15
Active to: 2015-03-26

Discography

Eine Olive Des Nichts2015

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Listeners: 158
Total plays: 3,242

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Tomas Tranströmer (b. 1931) is a Swedish writer, poet and translator, whose poetry has acquired a great influence in Sweden, and also around the world. Tranströmer received his secondary education at the Södra Latin School in Stockholm and graduated as a psychologist from Stockholm University in 1956. He began writing at thirteen, and published his first collection of poems, 17 dikter ("17 poems") in 1954. His latest collection, Den stora gåtan, was published in 2004. He published a short autobiography, Minnena ser mig, in 1993. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Tomas+Transtr%C3%B6mer">Read more on Last.fm</a>

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

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Global Burden of Cardiovascular Diseases and Risk Factors, 1990–2019
· 2020 · cited 9,729x
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· 2020 · cited 7,708x
Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modeling (PLS-SEM) Using R
· 2021 · cited 7,508x

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Quotes

“I was, however, more interested in steam engines than in electric ones. In other words, I was more romantic than technical.”
“The scientific method I was closest to was the Linnaean: discover, collect, examine.”
“We always feel younger than we are. I carry inside myself my earlier faces, as a tree contains its rings. The sum of them is me. The mirror sees only my latest face, while I know all my previous ones.”
“My total experience of school was mixed, with more darkness than light. Just as my image of society has become.”
“As when you were a child and some tremendous hurtWas pulled over your head like a sack-Glints of sunshine through the meshAnd the hum of the cherry trees.But it doesn’t help, the great hurtCovers head and torso and kneesAnd though you are able to move sometimesSpring brings no happiness.Yes, shimmering wool cap, pull it down over your faceStare through the mesh.Out on the bay, the rings of water multiply soundlesslyGreen leaves darken the earth.”
“Above ground,in tropical flood, earth's greenerystands with lifted arms, as if listeningto the beat of invisible pistons.”

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Official website: tomastranstromer.net
Image: Tomas Tranströmer 2012-05-04 001 (cropped).jpg

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start of work period: 1954-00-00
Commons category: Tomas Tranströmer
date of birth: 1931-04-15
date of death: 2015-03-26
name in kana: トンマス・イェスタ・トラーンストレメル
birth name: Tomas Gösta Tranströmer
name in native language: Tomas Tranströmer

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Works in European collections

1 object attributed to Tomas Tranströmer, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana

A nagy rejtély

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Article

Tomas Gösta Tranströmer ( Swedish: [ˈtʊ̌mːas ˈjœ̂sːta ˈtrâːnˌstrœmːɛr]; 15 April 1931 – 26 March 2015) was a Swedish poet, psychologist and translator. His poems captured the long winters in Sweden, the rhythm of the seasons and the palpable, atmospheric beauty of nature. Tranströmer's work is also characterized by a sense of mystery and wonder underlying the routine of everyday life, a quality which often gives his poems a religious dimension. He has been described as a Christian poet.

Tranströmer is acclaimed as one of the most important Scandinavian writers since the Second World War. Critics praised his poetry for its accessibility, even in translation. His poetry has been translated into over 60 languages. He received many awards for his poetry, including the 2011 Nobel Prize in Literature.