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Tomas Tranströmer

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Tomas Tranströmer

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性別
男性
生誕
1931-04-15 (Stockholm, Sweden)
死没
2015-03-26 (Stockholm, Sweden) 83歳
国籍
Swedish
言語
Swedish
居住地歴
Stockholm (majority of life)

経歴

職業
poet, psychologist, translator
活動期間
1954年〜2015年
影響を受けた人物
Rainer Maria Rilke, Walt Whitman, Surrealist poets
影響を与えた人物
contemporary Swedish poets, international translators and readers of poetry

学歴

Stockholm University
Humanities and Social Sciences (Psychology) / Department of Psychology
学位: 学位(心理学)
期間: 1950年代
卒業年: 1956
国: Sweden
Earned a degree in psychology and worked as a clinical psychologist.

受賞歴

Nobel Prize in Literature
2011
主催: Swedish Academy
結果: 受賞

受賞・候補エディション

作品

代表作

17 Poems (17 dikter)

1954年 Poetry 48ページ

An early collection featuring concise poems marked by vivid imagery and suggestive silences.

naturememorymoments of being
翻訳
  • Available in English in various translated selections

The Half-Finished Heaven (Den halvfärdiga himlen)

1962年 Poetry 64ページ

One of his notable collections, using symbolic and visual imagery to intersect the everyday and the transcendent.

light and darknessjourneymemory
翻訳
  • Available in English and introduced internationally

The Sorrow Gondola (Sorgegondolen)

1996年 Poetry 64ページ

A major late collection meditating on music, death, and loss in a contemplative register.

musiclosstime
翻訳
  • Available in English translation

全著作

  • 17 dikter (1954)
  • The Half-Finished Heaven (1962)
  • The Sorrow Gondola (1996)

作品の翻訳

  • Collected poems and individual collections translated into English and multiple other languages

作風・主題

文体
condensed imageryelliptical and suggestive dictionvisual and meditative description
頻出モチーフ
nature (forests, rivers, light)memory and timemusicality (melody, rhythm)

健康

  • Stroke (1990) and subsequent language impairment
    1990年以降
    Experienced partial paralysis and reduced verbal ability but continued to compose using fragmented language and visual imagery.

評価・遺産

Tomas Tranströmer was a Swedish poet internationally acclaimed for his condensed symbolic imagery and musical lines; he received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2011. Through brief but profound poetic moments he influenced many contemporary poets and translators.

豆知識

  • Worked as a clinical psychologist while continuing to write poetry.
  • Suffered a stroke in 1990 which limited speech, yet he continued to create.
  • Awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2011.