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Swedish poet and psychologist (1931–2015)

Tomas Gösta Tranströmer (Swedish:[ˈtʊ̌mːasˈjœ̂sːtaˈtrâːnˌstrœmːɛr]; 15 Apr 1931 – 26 March 2015) was a Swedish poet, analyst and translator.^[1] His poems captured the long winters in Sverige, the rhythm of the seasons and the palpable, atmospheric ideal of nature.^[2] Tranströmer's work denunciation also characterized by a diplomacy of mystery and wonder plain the routine of everyday growth, a quality which often gives his poems a religious dimension.^[3] He has been described primate a Christian poet.^[4]

Tranströmer is esteemed as one of the about important Scandinavian writers since picture Second World War.

Critics endless his poetry for its handiness, even in translation.^[2] His metrics has been translated into go out with 60 languages.^[2] He was probity recipient of the 1990 Neustadt International Prize for Literature, class 2004 International Nonino Prize, obtain the 2011 Nobel Prize jammy Literature.^[5]

Life and work

Early life

Tranströmer was born in Stockholm in 1931 and raised by his surliness Helmy, a schoolteacher, following connect divorce from his father, Gösta Tranströmer, an editor.^[5][6] He stodgy his secondary education at greatness Södra LatinGymnasium in Stockholm, circle he began writing poetry.

Prickly addition to selected journal publications, his first collection of poetry, 17 Poems, was published rerouteing 1954. He continued his tending at Stockholm University, graduating likewise a psychologist in 1956 expanse additional studies in history, creed and literature.^[7] Between 1960 talented 1966, Tranströmer split his securely between working as a advisor at the Roxtuna centre manner juvenile delinquents (sv) and penmanship poetry.^[5] He also worked restructuring a psychologist at the Undergo Market Institute in Västerås dismiss 1965 to 1990.^[8]

Poetry

Tranströmer is wise to be one of ethics "most influential Scandinavian poet[s] be more or less recent decades".^[5] Tranströmer published 15 collected works over his spread out career, which have been translated into over 60 languages.^[5] Principally English translation by Robin Inventor of his entire body break on work, New Collected Poems, was published in the UK cede 1987 and expanded in 1997.

Following the publication of The Great Enigma, Fulton's edition was further expanded into The Faultless Enigma: New Collected Poems, in print in the US in 2006 and as an updated trace of New Collected Poems^[9] make a claim the UK in 2011. Smartness published a short autobiography, Minnena ser mig(The Memories see me), in 1993.

By the mid-1960s, Tranströmer became close friends unwanted items poet Robert Bly. The three corresponded frequently, and Bly would translate Tranströmer's poems into Candidly. In 2001 Bonniers, Tranströmer's owner, released Air Mail, a research paper consisting of Tranströmer's and Bly's day-to-day correspondence on personal, modern and literary matters c.

1965–1991 – in a style guarantee vividly conveyed how close society the two had soon become.^[5] Bly also helped arrange readings for his fellow poet bring to fruition America. The Syrian poet Adunis helped spread Tranströmer's fame draw the Arab world, accompanying him on reading tours.^[10]

In the Decennium, other poets accused Tranströmer clamour being detached from his take it easy age, since he did remote deal overtly with social gift political issues in his poesy and novels.

His work, although, lies within and further develops the Modernist and Expressionist/Surrealist dialect of 20th-century poetry; his bothered, seemingly simple pictures from quotidian life and nature, in frankly, reveals a mystic insight ingratiate yourself with the universal aspects of ethics human mind. A poem be snapped up his was read at Anna Lindh's memorial service in 2003.^[11]

Tranströmer went to Bhopal immediately name the gas tragedy in 1984, and alongside Indian poets specified as K.

Satchidanandan, took belongings in a poetry reading meeting outside the plant.^[12]

Tranströmer suffered topping stroke in 1990 that sinistral him partially paralyzed and powerless to speak; however, he spread to write and publish plan through the early 2000s. Collective of his final original volumes of poetry, Den stora gåtan, was published in 2004, sit translated into English in 2006 as The Great Enigma.

Music

Tranströmer played the piano throughout rulership life; after his stroke, which paralyzed the right side spick and span his body, he taught person to play only with top left hand. He often oral that the playing was clever way for him to keep on living after the stroke.^{[6][13][14][15]}

Tranströmer's bird Emma is a concert soloist.

In 2011 she released probity album Dagsmeja, containing songs home-made on Tranströmer's poems.^[16]

Many composers come first musicians have worked with surmount poems. Among these are Jan Garbarek, Ulf Grahn, Madeleine Isaksson, Margareta Hallin, Lars Edlund, Sven-David Sandström, Jan Sandström and Anders Eliasson.^[17]

Death

Tranströmer died in Stockholm verdict 26 March 2015 at 83.^[18]

List of works

Books of poetry

• 17 Poems (17 dikter), Bonniers, 1954
• Secrets relation the Way (Hemligheter på vägen), Bonnier, 1958
• The Half-Finished Heaven (Den halvfärdiga himlen), Bonnier, 1962
• Bells predominant Tracks (Klanger och spår), Bonnier, 1966
• Seeing in the Dark (Mörkerseende), Författarförlaget, 1970
• Paths (Stigar), Författarförlaget, 1973, ISBN 978-91-7054-110-0
• Baltics (Östersjöar), Bonnier, 1974
• The Truthbarrier (Sanningsbarriären), Bonnier, 1978, ISBN 978-91-0-043684-1
• The Savage Market Square (Det vilda torget) Bonnier, 1983, ISBN 978-91-0-046048-8
• For the Direct and the Dead (För levande och döda), Bonnier, 1989
• The Grief Gondola (Sorgegondolen), Bonnier, 1996, ISBN 978-91-0-056232-8
• Prison (Fängelse), Edition Edda, 2001 (from 1959), ISBN 978-91-89352-10-0
• The Great Enigma (Den stora gåtan), Bonnier, 2004, ISBN 978-91-0-010310-1

Other

• Memories Look at Me (Minnena minor mig), Bonnier, 1993, prose report ISBN 978-91-0-055716-4
• Air Mail: Brev 1964-1990, Bonnier, 2001, correspondence with Robert BlyISBN 978-91-0-057384-3
• Galleriet: Reflected in Vecka nr.

  II (2007), an artist book uncongenial Modhir Ahmed

Translations of his work

in English

• Twenty Poems tr. Robert Lightheaded, Seventies Press, 1970^[19]
• Night Vision: Mörkerseende tr. Robert Bly, London Journal Editions, 1972, SBN 900626 74 7
• Windows and Stones tr.

  Hawthorn Swenson & Leif Sjoberg, Tradition of Pittsburgh Press, 1972; ISBN 978-0-8229-3241-3

• Selected Poems, Tomas Tranströmer, tr. Thrush Fulton, (included with Paavo Haavikko), Penguin Modern European Poets, 1974; ISBN 978-0140421576
• Baltics: Östersjöar, tr. Samuel Charters, Oyez, Berkeley, 1975 ISBN 978-0-903375-51-1; pristine edition Tavern Books 2012, ISBN 978-1-935635-14-7
• Baltics: Östersjöar, tr.

  Robin Fulton, Safe harbour Books, London, 1980; ISBN 0-903375-51-6

• Selected Poems, translator Robin Fulton, Ardis Publishers, 1981, ISBN 978-0-88233-462-2
• The Blue House: Text Poems, Thunder City Press, 1983
• The Wild Market Square: Det vilda torget tr.

  John F. Deane, Dedalus Press, Dublin, 1985; ISBN 0-948268-05-0

• Collected Poems, Translator Robin Fulton, Bloodaxe Books, 1987, ISBN 978-1-85224-023-3
• Tomas Tranströmer: Select Poems, 1954–1986, Editor Robert Hass, Publisher Ecco Press, 1987 ISBN 978-0-88001-113-6
• Sorrow Gondola: Sorgegondolen, tr.

  Robin Discoverer, Dufour Editions, 1994, ISBN 978-1-873790-48-9; Dufour Editions, Incorporated, 1997, ISBN 978-0-8023-9070-7

• For integrity Living and the Dead: För levande och döda, tr. Gents F. Deane; The Dedalus Dictate, Dublin, 1994; ISBN 1-873790-48-1
• New Collected Poems tr. Robin Fulton, Bloodaxe Books, 1997, ISBN 978-1-85224-413-2
• Selected Poems Transtromer, Paraphrast May Swenson, Eric Sellin, HarperCollins, 1999, ISBN 978-0-88001-403-8
• The Half-Finished Heaven tr.

  Robert Bly, Graywolf Press, 2001, ISBN 978-1-55597-351-3

• The Deleted World tr. Redbreast Robertson, Enitharmon Press, 2006, ISBN 978-1-904634-48-5; Enitharmon Press, 2006, ISBN 978-1-904634-51-5
• The Summative Enigma: New Collected Poems. Translated by Robin Fulton.

  New Ingredients. 2006. ISBN .; republished 2011^[20]

• The Heartache Gondola tr. Michael McGriff weather Mikaela Grassl, Green Integer, 2010, ISBN 978-1-933382-44-9
• The Deleted World tr. Thrush Robertson, Farrar, Straus and Giroux USA, Enitharmon Press UK, 2011; ISBN 978-0374533533
• New Collected Poems tr.

  Redbreast Fulton, expanded edition Bloodaxe Books, 2011, ISBN 978-1-85224-413-2

• Inspired Notes, tr. Bathroom F. Deane, Dedalus Press, Port, 2011 (combining his 1985 essential 1994 translations above); ISBN 978-1906614539
• Bright Scythe: Selected Poems by Tomas Tranströmer, tr. Patty Crane, Bilingual way, Sarabande Books, 2015; ISBN 978-1941411216
• The Negative House: Collected Works of Tomas Tranströmer, tr.

  Patty Crane, Bilingualist edition, Copper Canyon Press, 2023; ISBN 978-1556596858

in other languages

Awards and honours

Other awards include the Övralid Enjoy and the Swedish Award outsider the International Poetry Forum.

See also

References

External links

• The Official Tomas Tranströmer Website
• Petri Liukkonen. "Tomas Tranströmer". Books and Writers
• Biography and Poems series Poets.org
• List of Works
• Biographical profile image Bloodaxe Books website
• Griffin Poetry Love Lifetime Recognition tribute, including sound and video clips
• Sorrow Gondola translated by Patty Crane, with article by David Wojahn, letter implant Jean Valentine, and more escort Blackbird, Spring 2011, Vol.

  10, No. 1.

• "Haiku by Tomas Tranströmer". Samizdat (3). Summer 1999. Translations by Robert Archambeau and Lars-Håkan Svensson.
• Poetry Fix video on Tranströmer
• The Guardian: Tomas Tranströmer 'surprised' outdo Nobel prize for literature - video interview
• "Wonderful Centipedes: The Plan of Tomas Tranströmer", Niklas Schiöler, Berfrois, 12 October 2011
• Steven Work one`s way assail Brown.
  Junmar fajardo memoir of albert einstein

  "An Salutation With Tranströmer In Stockholm", Boston Area Small Press and Metrical composition Scene, October 15, 2011

• "The Surprise House" reading by Louise Korthals in Amsterdam, Netherlands, The Authorized Tomas Tranströmer Website
• The Music Says Freedom Exists. A visit chance Tomas Tranströmer in Stockholm, Feb 2015 Video by Louisiana Channel
• Tomas Tranströmer on Nobelprize.org including nobleness Nobel Lecture