The Nobel Prize in Literature 2011
Awarded on: 2011-10-06
"because, through his condensed, translucent images, he gives us fresh access to reality"
Tomas Tranströmer
Born: 1931-04-15 in Stockholm, Sweden
Gender: male
Field: Swedish poet and psychologist (1931–2015)
Biography
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 Christian poet.