Tomas Tranströmer

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born

April 15, 1931 in Stockholm, Sweden

gender

male

website

http://tomastranstromer.net/

genre

Poetry, Short Stories

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Nobel Prize Winner For Literature 2011

Tomas Tranströmer, one of Sweden’s leading poets.

His poetry, building on Modernism, Expressionism, and Surrealism, contains powerful imagery concerned with issues of fragmentation and isolation. “He has perfected a particular kind of epiphanic lyric, often in quatrains, in which nature is the active, energizing subject, and the self (if the self is present at all) is the object,” notes critic Katie Peterson in the Boston Review.

Critic and poet Tom Sleigh observed, in his Interview with a Ghost (2006), that “Tranströmer’s poems imagine the spaces that the deep then inhabits, like ground water gushing up into a newly dug well.”

His honors include the Lifetime Recognition Award from the Griffin Trust for...more

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Books by Tomas Tranströmer

Average rating: 4.13 · 617 ratings · 101 reviews · 48 distinct works

	The Great Enigma: New Collected Poems by Tomas Tranströmer, Robin Fulton (Translator) 4.19 avg rating — 183 ratings — published 2003 — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Half-Finished Heaven by Tomas Tranströmer, Robert Bly 4.31 avg rating — 115 ratings — published 1962 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Selected Poems, 1954-1986 by Tomas Tranströmer, Robert Hass (Editor), May Swenson (Translator) 4.22 avg rating — 95 ratings — published 1987 — 4 editions	My rating:
	The Sorrow Gondola by Tomas Tranströmer, Michael McGriff (Translator), Mikaela Grassl (Translation) 3.53 avg rating — 32 ratings — published 1996 — 7 editions	My rating:
	Samlade Dikter 1954-1996 4.24 avg rating — 21 ratings — published 1983 — 4 editions	My rating:
	The Deleted World 4.12 avg rating — 25 ratings — published 2006 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Baltics 4.47 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 1974 — 4 editions	My rating:
	17 dikter 4.06 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 1954 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Windows and Stones: Selected Poems by Tomas Tranströmer, May Swenson (Translator), Leif Sjöberg (Translator) 4.30 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 1972 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Dikter och prosa 1954-2004 3.93 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 2004 — 6 editions	My rating:

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Series by Tomas Tranströmer

Liryka i Metafizyka (1 book)
by Tomas Tranströmer, Łukasz Winiarski (Translator), Magdalena wasilewska-Chmura (Translator), Czesław Miłosz (Translator), Leonard Neuger (Translator), Michał Sprusiński (Translator)

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Quotes by Tomas Tranströmer

“I am carried in my shadow
like a violin
in its black case”
― Tomas Tranströmer, For the Living and the Dead

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“Det finns i skogen en oväntad glänta som bara kan hittas av den som gått vilse.”
― Tomas Tranströmer

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“Hasse, duży ciemny chłopiec, pięć razy silniejszy ode mnie, miał zwyczaj kłaść mnie na łopatki na każdej przerwie tego pierwszego roku szkolnego. Początkowo stawiałem silny opór, ale to nie służyło niczemu, kładł mnie i tak, triumfując. W końcu wynalazłem metodę, która powodowała jego rozczarowanie: całkowite rozluźnienie. Kiedy się zbliżał, udawałem, że Ja Sam uciekłem pozostawiając jedynie trupa, szmatę pozbawioną życia, którą mógł sobie przygniatać do woli. (...)
Zastanawiam się nad tym, jakie znaczenie metoda przemiany siebie samego w pozbawioną życia szmatę miała dla mnie w późniejszym życiu.”
― Tomas Tranströmer, Muzeum motyli

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