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Apr 15, 1931 Stockholm, Sweden Died on 26 Mar 2015 (aged 83)
Swedish poet, psychologist and translator
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About Tomas Tranströmer
- Tomas Gösta Tranströmer (Swedish: ['t?m?as ?jœs?ta ?tr??n?strœm??r]; 15 April 1931 – 26 March 2015) was a Swedish poet, psychologist and translator.
- His poems captured the long Swedish winters, 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 was the recipient of the 1990 Neustadt International Prize for Literature and the 2011 Nobel Prize in Literature.
