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Tomas Tranströmer

1931 - 2015

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Tomas Gösta Tranströmer (Swedish: [ˈtʊ̌mːas ˈjœ̂sːta ˈtrâːnˌstrœmːɛr]; 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Tomas Tranströmer has received more than 292,360 page views. His biography is available in 95 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 91 in 2019). Tomas Tranströmer is the 219th most popular writer (up from 284th in 2019), the 30th most popular biography from Sweden (up from 40th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Swedish Writer.

Tomas Tranströmer is most famous for his poetry. He is a Swedish poet who has won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2011.

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Notable Works

The Great Enigma
Poetry
Translated into fifty languages, the poetry of Tomas Transtromer has had a profound influence around the world, an influence that has steadily grown and has now attained a prominence comparable to that of Pablo Neruda's during his lifetime. But if Neruda is blazing fire, Transtromer is expanding ice. gathers all the poems Tomas Transtromer has published, from his distinctive first collection in 1954, , through his epic poem ("my most consistent attempt to write music"), and , published six years after he suffered a debilitating stroke in 1990 ("I am carried in my shadow / like a violin / in its black case."), to his most recent slim book, , published in Sweden in 2004. Also included is his prose-memoir , containing keys into his intensely spiritual, metaphysical poetry (like the brief passage of insect collecting on Runmaro Island when he was a teenager). Firmly rooted in the natural world, his work falls between dream and dream; it probes "the great unsolved love" with the opening up, through subtle modulations, of "concrete words."
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For the living and the dead
1994
The truth barrier
1984
Baltics
1975
Selected Poems 1954-1986
Poetry
Tomas TranstrÖmer's poems are thick with the feel of life lived in a specific place: the dark, overpowering Swedish winters, the long thaws and brief paradisal summers in the Stockholm archipelago. He conveys a sense of what it is like to be a private citizen in the second half of the twentieth century.
1989
How the late autumn night novel begins
1980
Selected Poems 1954-1986
Poetry (poetic works by one author)
1989
For the living and the dead
Translations into English, Poetry (poetic works by one author)
1994
Tomas Tranströmer
Translations into English, Swedish poetry, Poetry (poetic works by one author)
1987
Airmail
Bly, robert, 1926-, Authors, american, Authors, european
2012
The Great Enigma
Translations into English, Poetry (poetic works by one author), Swedish poetry
A collection of over 175 poems by Swedish author Tomas Tranströmer.
2003
Baltics
1975

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Tomas Tranströmer ranks 219 out of 7,302. Before him are Maurice Leblanc, Carlo Goldoni, Diogenes Laërtius, Terence, Quintilian, and Pierre Corneille. After him are Ferdowsi, Isaac Bashevis Singer, J. K. Rowling, Bram Stoker, Torquato Tasso, and Henryk Sienkiewicz.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1931, Tomas Tranströmer ranks 9. Before him are Rajneesh, A. P. J. Abdul Kalam, Toni Morrison, Raúl Castro, Mário Zagallo, and James Dean. After him are Irvin D. Yalom, Isabel Martínez de Perón, Raymond Kopa, Robert Duvall, Philip Kotler, and Chun Doo-hwan. Among people deceased in 2015, Tomas Tranströmer ranks 11. Before him are Demis Roussos, Nicholas Winton, Abdullah of Saudi Arabia, Christopher Lee, Omar Sharif, and Terry Pratchett. After him are B.B. King, Helmut Schmidt, Anita Ekberg, Süleyman Demirel, Henning Mankell, and Josef Masopust.

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In Sweden

Among people born in Sweden, Tomas Tranströmer ranks 30 out of 1,879. Before him are Christina, Queen of Sweden (1626), Oscar II of Sweden (1829), Ingrid of Sweden (1910), Oleg of Novgorod (900), Charles X Gustav of Sweden (1622), and Dieterich Buxtehude (1637). After him are Charles IX of Sweden (1550), John III of Sweden (1537), Princess Märtha of Sweden (1901), Prince Gustaf Adolf, Duke of Västerbotten (1906), Emanuel Swedenborg (1688), and Charles XIII of Sweden (1748).

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Among WRITERS In Sweden

Among writers born in Sweden, Tomas Tranströmer ranks 4. Before him are Selma Lagerlöf (1858), Astrid Lindgren (1907), and August Strindberg (1849). After him are Pär Lagerkvist (1891), Henning Mankell (1948), Eyvind Johnson (1900), Verner von Heidenstam (1859), Harry Martinson (1904), Stieg Larsson (1954), Ellen Key (1849), and Per Olov Enquist (1934).

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