Tomas Tranströmer
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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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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 autob
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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.