Tomas Tranströmer
Author

Poems

Dygnkantring swedish

Translations: bs de lv mk ru sl uk

Allegro swedish

Translations: bs de fa lv mk ru tr uk

Från mars –79 swedish

Translations: bs de fa lv mk ru tr uk

Schubertiana swedish

Translations: bs de lv mk ru tr uk

Romanska bågar swedish

Translations: bs de fa lv mk ru uk

Osäkerhetens rike swedish

Translations: bs de fa lv mk ru sl uk

Tomas Tranströmer
Author

About

* 15.04.1931, Stockholm, Sweden
† 26.03.2015, Stockholm, Sweden

Tomas Tranströmer, born in Stockholm in April 1931, is a Swedish poet and translator. He began writing poetry while he was at school. In 1956 he finished his studies of psychology, history, religion, and literature at Stockholm University. During his studies, his poems were published in magazines and his first collection of poems, 17 dikter (Seventeen Poems), appeared in 1954.

Tranströmer has published 15 collected works over his career, though his complete body of work would fit into one not too large book.

Tranströmer suffered several strokes since 1990 that left him partially paralyzed and unable to speak; however, he would continue to write poetry through the early 2000s. He published a short autobiography, Minnena ser mig (The Memories see me), in 1993. His last original work, The Great Enigma, was published in 2004.

Tranströmer is one of Scandinavia's most important poets. He has sold thousands of volumes in his native country and his poetry has been translated into more than 60 languages. His poetry is characterised by a sense of wonder underlying the routine of everyday life, a quality which often gives his poems a religious dimension. The traditional nature poetry written in his early twenties later became a darker, personal, and more open verse.

Next to many other awards Tranströmer received throughout his career, he has been awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for 2011. The Nobel Committee stated that Tranströmer's work received the prize “because, through his condensed, translucent images, he gives us fresh access to reality.'

Permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy Peter Englund said, 'He's been writing poetry since 1951 when he made his debut. And has quite a small production, really. He's writing about big questions. He's writing about death, he's writing about history and memory, and nature.'

Tomas Tranströmer died on March 26, 2015 in Stockholm, aged 83.