Samfundet De Nios stora pris (De Nio's Grand Prize)
2 appearances
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Edition 61 (1979) Winner
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Edition 82 (2001) Winner
Tomas Tranströmer
トーマス・トランスストレーメル
Tomas Tranströmer
Profile
- Gender
- Male
- Born
- 1931-04-15 （Stockholm, Sweden）
- Died
- 2015-03-26 （Stockholm, Sweden） age 83
- Nationality
- Swedish
- Languages
- Swedish
- Residence History
- Stockholm (majority of life)
Career
- Occupations
- poet, psychologist, translator
- Active Years
- 1954-2015
- Influenced By
- Rainer Maria Rilke, Walt Whitman, Surrealist poets
- Influenced
- contemporary Swedish poets, international translators and readers of poetry
Education
| Institution | Faculty | Department | Degree | Period | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stockholm University | Humanities and Social Sciences (Psychology) | Department of Psychology | 学位（心理学） | 1950年代 | Sweden |
Stockholm University
Humanities and Social Sciences (Psychology)
/ Department of Psychology
Degree:
学位（心理学）
Period:
1950年代
Year of Graduation:
1956
Country:
Sweden
Earned a degree in psychology and worked as a clinical psychologist.
Awards
| Year | Award | Work | Category | Organization | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | Nobel Prize in Literature | — | — | Swedish Academy | 受賞 |
Nobel Prize in Literature
2011
Organization:
Swedish Academy
Result:
受賞
Awards & Nominations
Neustadt International Prize for Literature
1 appearances
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Edition 11 (1990) Winner
Nordic Council Literature Prize
1 appearances
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Edition 30 (1990) Winner
August Prize
1 appearances
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Edition 8 (1996) Winner
Golden Wreath of Struga Poetry Evenings
1 appearances
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Edition 38 (2003) Winner
Nobel Prize in Literature
1 appearances
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Edition 104 (2011) Winner
Works
Major Works
17 Poems (17 dikter)
1954 Poetry 48 pagesAn early collection featuring concise poems marked by vivid imagery and suggestive silences.
naturememorymoments of being
Translations
- Available in English in various translated selections
The Half-Finished Heaven (Den halvfärdiga himlen)
1962 Poetry 64 pagesOne of his notable collections, using symbolic and visual imagery to intersect the everyday and the transcendent.
light and darknessjourneymemory
Translations
- Available in English and introduced internationally
The Sorrow Gondola (Sorgegondolen)
1996 Poetry 64 pagesA major late collection meditating on music, death, and loss in a contemplative register.
musiclosstime
Translations
- Available in English translation
Bibliography
- 17 dikter (1954)
- The Half-Finished Heaven (1962)
- The Sorrow Gondola (1996)
Translations of Works
- Collected poems and individual collections translated into English and multiple other languages
Style & Themes
- Literary Style
- condensed imageryelliptical and suggestive dictionvisual and meditative description
- Recurring Motifs
- nature (forests, rivers, light)memory and timemusicality (melody, rhythm)
Health
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Stroke (1990) and subsequent language impairment1990年以降Experienced partial paralysis and reduced verbal ability but continued to compose using fragmented language and visual imagery.
Legacy
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.
Trivia
- 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.