
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.
Swedish writer, poet and translator, whose poetry has been translated into over 60 languages. He was awarded the 2011 Nobel Prize in Literature.

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.
Swedish writer, poet and translator, whose poetry has been translated into over 60 languages. He was awarded the 2011 Nobel Prize in Literature.