NobelprisvinnerTranströmer is dead – NRK

He went Thursday after shorter periods of illness.

12. February this year played the Danish web-TV channel Louisiana Channel into a short film at home Tranströmer. This was the Swede last public appearance, according to Bonnier

Tranströmer was poet and psychologist. He grew up in Stockholm and in 1954 he debuted with the collection “17 poet.” He worked as a psychologist until 1980 and worked among other Arbetsmarknadsinstitutet in Vasteras and the institution Roxtuna for juvenile criminals.

In 1990, the author suffered a stroke that led to aphasia and that Tranströmer was paralyzed on the right side of the body.

PORTRAIT: See SVT eight minutes long portrait of the award-winning author.

PORTRAIT: See SVT eight minutes long portrait of the award-winning author.

Got the Nobel Prize

In 2011 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, the poet had been a favorite to win the award for many years. In its citation stated the following:

“Through their fortettete and translucent images, he gives the reader new access to the real”

Tranströmer received even modest about the venerable award while he ate lunch with his wife Monica.

– When no one called, and we thought ‘So though, when it was not anything this year either, “said Monica Tranströmer reporters 2010.

– So called Peter Englund (Svenska Akademi secretary, journ. note.) three minutes at one. We were very surprised, she said.

Translated by Jan Erik Vold

The author has previously received numerous awards and honors, including August Prize in 1996, the Nordic Council Literature Prize in 1990 and poetry award Erik Lindgren Prize in 2009.

There is one Norwegian translation of Tomas Tranströmer. “Total poem / to Norwegian” was published by Gyldendal in 1996, translated by Jan Erik Vold.

VIDEO: Huge cheers in Stockholm when Tomas Tranströmer declared the winner Nobel Prize for Literature by the Swedish Academy secretary Peter Englund.

VIDEO: Huge cheers in Stockholm when Tomas Tranströmer declared the winner Nobel Prize for Literature by the Swedish Academy secretary Peter Englund.

Listen Tomas Tranströmer read here:

Published 03.27.2015, at. 16.50

Updated 27.03.2015, at. 18.04