Swedish poet Tomas Tranströmer, a hometown favorite with a mantel's worth of Scandinavian literary prizes, had been on critics' Nobel Prize short lists ...

Later I read The Great Enigma, gathering Robin Fulton's translations of Tranströmer's poems.Tranströmer has been fortunate in his long affiliation with Fulton, whose versions captivated me. So ...

A picture taken on March 31, 2011 shows Swedish poet Tomas Transtroemer at his home in Stockholm, Sweden. Photo by JESSICA GOW/AFP/Getty Images. Tweet Share Share Comment ...

Until Thursday, 88 out of 100 people who bothered to fill out Nobelprize.org’s survey, had never heard of the Swedish poet, Tomas Tranströmer. Many poets might recoil from this statistic, but ...

Since this morning’s announcement of Tomas Tranströmer as the 2011 Nobel Prize-winner in Literature, the Swedish poet’s collections have catapulted upward in sales rankings on Amazon. Since ...

Swedish poet Tomas Tranströmer has won the 2011 Nobel Prize in Literature, it was announced this morning. His latest book of poems, "The Sorrow Gondola," was published last year in a bilingual ...

Tomas Tranströmer, trans. from the Swedish by Patty Crane. Sarabande (Consortium, dist.), $17.95 (240p) ISBN 978-1-941411-21-6 Swedish Nobel laureate Tranströmer (1931–2015) was often admired ...

The Nobel Prize in literature was awarded Thursday to a psychologist who used his spare time to craft sparsely written poems about the mysteries of everyday life - commuting to work, watching the ...

“Tranströmer!” Of course, I knew immediately what the email message meant. After years of waiting among the also-rans, and amid speculation that this was the year for an Arab poet to win the ...

Transtroemer, 80, was honoured "because, through his condensed, translucent images, he gives us fresh access to reality", the Swedish Academy's jury said. His work addresses themes of nature ...

Tranströmer’s Whispers in a Microphone. This article is from the archive of The New York Sun before the launch of its new website in 2022. The Sun has neither altered nor updated such articles but ...

It’s truly heartwarming to see the Literature prize go to Tomas Tranströmer. One can see how the Swedish Academy might have resisted giving the prize to a local boy out of some sense of ...