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* 02.04.1947, Borgå/Porvoo, Finlande
Réside à: , Finlande

Tua Forsström (born 1947) is a Finnish poet who writes in Swedish. She was awarded the Nordic Council Literature Prize in 1998 for the poetry collection Efter att ha tillbringat en natt bland hästar, The Bellman Prize in 2003 and Samfundet De Nio's Grand Prize and Aniara Prize in 2007.

Forsström's work is known for its engagement with the Finnish landscape, travel and conflicts within relationships. She often uses quotations in her work, sometimes placing them directly into her poems and at other times using them as introductions or interludes in her sequences.

She published her first book in 1972, A Poem about Love and Other Things (En dikt om kärlek och annat) . Her breakthrough into the English-speaking world came in 1987 with her sixth collection, Snow Leopard (Snöleopard) . In 1997 collection of poems After Spending a Night Among Horses (Efter att ha tillbringat en natt bland hästar) (1997) was published, and in 2003 a collection I Studied Once at a Wonderful Faculty (Jag studerade en gång vid en underbar fakultet) (2003).

Forsström’s poems have been translated into Finnish, Danish, German, French, Dutch, Spanish and English.

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