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Tomas Tranströmer
Tomas Gösta Tranströmer 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 Chr…
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culture · Swedish poet and psychologist (1931–2015) · linguist · poet · translator · psychologist · writer · librettist · also Tomas Tranströmer, Tomas Gösta Tranströmer, Tranströmer
Born 15 April 1931 · Died 26 March 2015 · Q42122
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2015· 4 entries
The Guardian: Swedish Nobel laureate Tomas Tranströmer dies aged 83
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Died 2015-03-26.
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Psychology Today: Tomas Tranströmer’s Avocational Polymathy
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2013· 1 entry
The Guardian: Airmail: The Letters of Robert Bly and Tomas Tranströmer – review
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2012· 2 entries
New Republic: Correspondence: A Response to TNR’s Article on Tomas Tranströmer
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The Guardian: Poem of the week: Six Winters by Tomas Tranströmer
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2011· 17 entries
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature — because, through his condensed, translucent images, he gives us fresh access to reality.
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Observer: After Nobel Prize, the Race to Publish More Tomas Tranströmer
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The Guardian: Tomas Tranströmer's Nobel prize for literature provokes a mixed response
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The Guardian: Tomas Tranströmer – My Nobel prize-winning hero
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The Guardian: Tomas Tranströmer 'surprised' by Nobel prize for literature - video
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The Guardian: In praise of … Tomas Tranströmer | Editorial
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The Daily Beast: Tomas Tranströmer: Nobel Literature Prize Winner’s Poems Have Positive Outlook
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The Guardian: Alone by Nobel laureate Tomas Tranströmer - audio
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The Guardian: Guardian Books podcast: Why Tomas Tranströmer won the Nobel prize
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The Guardian: Tomas Tranströmer: Alone
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The Guardian: Tomas Tranströmer: From March 1979
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The Guardian: Tomas Tranströmer: Tracks
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The Guardian: Nobel prize for literature goes to Tomas Tranströmer
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The New Yorker: Tomas Tranströmer Wins the Nobel Prize for Literature
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The Guardian: New Collected Poems by Tomas Tranströmer – review
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Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature (2011).
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Released the album Dagsmeja, containing settings of 18 of Tranströmer's poems
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2006· 1 entry
And as an updated edition of New Collected Poems in the UK in 2011
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2004· 1 entry
Awarded International Nonino Prize (2004).
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2003· 1 entry
Won Golden Wreath (2003).
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2001· 2 entries
Awarded Samfundet De Nio's Grand Prize (2001).
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Bonniers, Tranströmer's publisher, released Air Mail, a work consisting of Tranströmer's and Bly's day-to-day correspondence on personal, contemporary and literary matters c
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1996· 1 entry
Awarded August Prize for The Sorrow Gondola (1996).
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1995· 1 entry
Awarded Gustaf Fröding Society Poetry Prize (1995).
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1992· 2 entries
Awarded Horst Bienek Award for Poetry (1992).
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Awarded Litteris et Artibus (1992).
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1991· 1 entry
Awarded Swedish Academy Nordic Prize (1991).
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1990· 3 entries
Awarded Neustadt International Prize for Literature (1990).
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Awarded Nordic Council Literature Prize (1990).
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That left him partially paralyzed and unable to speak; however, he continued to write and publish poetry through the early 2000s
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1985· 1 entry
Awarded Aniara Award (1985).
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1984· 1 entry
Awarded Gerard Bonnier Poetry Award (1984).
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1981· 1 entry
Awarded Kellgren Award (1981).
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1973· 1 entry
Awarded Sveriges Radio's Poetry Prize (1973).
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1958· 1 entry
Awarded Aftonbladet Literary Award (1958).
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1956· 1 entry
With additional studies in history, religion and literature
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1931· 2 entries
Born 1931-04-15.
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And raised by his mother Helmy, a schoolteacher, following her divorce from his father, Gösta Tranströmer, an editor
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