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Tomas Tranströmer

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Also known as Tomas Gösta Tranströmer

Swedish poet, psychologist and translator (1931-2015)

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Tomas Tranströmer was a male artist from Sweden whose work period began in 1954. He was born on April 15, 1931, and died on March 26, 2015. His notable works include *Blue House*, *El árbol y la nube*, *Para vivos y muertos*, *Visión de la memoria*, and *विश्व कविता संचयन*. He is recognized in the Nobel Literature collection and has received one Nobel Prize.

His writings have been referenced by 682 other encyclopedia articles. He is associated with similar artists such as Sveriges radio, Mattias Alkberg BD, Torgny Lindgren, Kajsa Grytt, and Oskar Schönning. Tranströmer’s quotes include the statement that the scientific method he was closest to was the Linnaean: discover, collect, examine. He also noted that his total experience of school was mixed, with more darkness than light.

Synthesized by Vinony from 25 facts across 10 sources: Wikidata, Last.fm, Europeana Sparql, Crossref, MusicBrainz, Open Library, Wikiquote, Nobel Prize, Vinony collections, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.

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

via Open Library + Wikidata

Music · MusicBrainz

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

Discography

Discogs

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
158
Total plays
3,242

Similar artists

Sveriges radioMattias Alkberg BDTorgny LindgrenKajsa GryttOskar Schönning

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>

via Last.fm · Tomas Tranströmer

Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

  1. Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019

    · 2020 · cited 15,938x

  2. Global Burden of Cardiovascular Diseases and Risk Factors, 1990–2019

    · 2020 · cited 10,210x

  3. Electron-Hole Diffusion Lengths Exceeding 1 Micrometer in an Organometal Trihalide Perovskite Absorber

    · 2013 · cited 9,958x

  4. Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modeling (PLS-SEM) Using R

    · 2021 · cited 8,511x

  5. Global burden of 87 risk factors in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019

    · 2020 · cited 7,992x

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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.”

via Wikiquote · CC BY-SA

Nobel Prize

  • The Nobel Prize in Literature2011

    “because, through his condensed, translucent images, he gives us fresh access to reality”

NobelPrize.org →

Wikidata facts

Instance of
human
Given name
Tomas
Gender
male
Citizenship
Sweden
Place of birth
Sweden
Place of death
Stockholm
Occupation
writer
Educated at
Södra Latin
Languages spoken
Swedish
Religion
atheism
Award
Nobel Prize in Literature
Field of work
psychology
Instrument
piano
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
cause of death
stroke
name in kana
トンマス・イェスタ・トラーンストレメル
has works in the collection
Nationalmuseum
writing language
Swedish
manner of death
natural causes
birth name
Tomas Gösta Tranströmer
name in native language
Tomas Tranströmer
Sources (11)

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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

A nagy rejtély

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Encyclopedic overview

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.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Tomas Tranströmer” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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