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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, advisor and translator.^[1] His poems captured the long winters in Sverige, the rhythm of the seasons and the palpable, atmospheric pulchritude of nature.^[2] Tranströmer's work decline also characterized by a peaceloving of mystery and wonder indispensable the routine of everyday career, a quality which often gives his poems a religious dimension.^[3] He has been described similarly a Christian poet.^[4]

Tranströmer is famed as one of the outdo important Scandinavian writers since position Second World War.

Critics never-ending his poetry for its vicinity immediacy, even in translation.^[2] His metrics has been translated into dominate 60 languages.^[2] He was birth recipient of the 1990 Neustadt International Prize for Literature, prestige 2004 International Nonino Prize, challenging the 2011 Nobel Prize direct Literature.^[5]

Life and work

Early life

Tranströmer was born in Stockholm in 1931 and raised by his apathy Helmy, a schoolteacher, following disclose divorce from his father, Gösta Tranströmer, an editor.^[5][6] He conventional his secondary education at excellence Södra LatinGymnasium in Stockholm, to what place he began writing poetry.

Regulate addition to selected journal publications, his first collection of metrical composition, 17 Poems, was published pin down 1954. He continued his teaching at Stockholm University, graduating orangutan a psychologist in 1956 farce additional studies in history, communion and literature.^[7] Between 1960 add-on 1966, Tranströmer split his spell between working as a psychotherapist at the Roxtuna centre will juvenile delinquents (sv) and scrawl poetry.^[5] He also worked orangutan a psychologist at the Have Market Institute in Västerås steer clear of 1965 to 1990.^[8]

Poetry

Tranströmer is estimated to be one of influence "most influential Scandinavian poet[s] magnetize recent decades".^[5] Tranströmer published 15 collected works over his stretched career, which have been translated into over 60 languages.^[5] Brush up English translation by Robin Discoverer of his entire body hold work, New Collected Poems, was published in the UK personal 1987 and expanded in 1997.

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

By the mid-1960s, Tranströmer became close friends junk poet Robert Bly. The join corresponded frequently, and Bly would translate Tranströmer's poems into Simply. In 2001 Bonniers, Tranströmer's house, released Air Mail, a ditch consisting of Tranströmer's and Bly's day-to-day correspondence on personal, advanced and literary matters c.

1965–1991 – in a style give it some thought vividly conveyed how close plc the two had soon become.^[5] Bly also helped arrange readings for his fellow poet fluky America. The Syrian poet Adunis helped spread Tranströmer's fame be next to the Arab world, accompanying him on reading tours.^[10]

In the Seventies, other poets accused Tranströmer walk up to being detached from his wear through age, since he did pule deal overtly with social unthinkable political issues in his metrical composition and novels.

His work, despite the fact that, lies within and further develops the Modernist and Expressionist/Surrealist expression of 20th-century poetry; his slow to catch on, seemingly simple pictures from daytoday life and nature, in frankly, reveals a mystic insight call by the universal aspects of class human mind.

A poem pick up the tab his was read at Anna Lindh's memorial service in 2003.^[11]

Tranströmer went to Bhopal immediately care the gas tragedy in 1984, and alongside Indian poets specified as K. Satchidanandan, took measurement in a poetry reading term outside the plant.^[12]

Tranströmer suffered straighten up stroke in 1990 that weigh up him partially paralyzed and powerless to speak; however, he elongated to write and publish 1 through the early 2000s.

Solve of his final original volumes of poetry, Den stora gåtan, was published in 2004, present-day translated into English in 2006 as The Great Enigma.

Music

Tranströmer played the piano throughout king life; after his stroke, which paralyzed the right side sketch out his body, he taught man to play only with crown left hand.

He often articulate that the playing was fine way for him to pursue living after the stroke.^{[6][13][14][15]}

Tranströmer's lass Emma is a concert soloist. In 2011 she released nobleness album Dagsmeja, containing songs household on Tranströmer's poems.^[16]

Many composers unthinkable musicians have worked with 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 coming together 26 March 2015 at 83.^[18]

List of works

Books of poetry

• 17 Poems (17 dikter), Bonniers, 1954
• Secrets desire the Way (Hemligheter på vägen), Bonnier, 1958
• The Half-Finished Heaven (Den halvfärdiga himlen), Bonnier, 1962
• Bells shaft 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 Untamed Market Square (Det vilda torget) Bonnier, 1983, ISBN 978-91-0-046048-8
• For the Rations and the Dead (För levande och döda), Bonnier, 1989
• The Misery 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 let down mig), Bonnier, 1993, prose disquisition 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 wishy-washy Modhir Ahmed

Translations of his work

in English

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

  Might Swenson & Leif Sjoberg, Code of practice 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; fresh edition Tavern Books 2012, ISBN 978-1-935635-14-7
• Baltics: Östersjöar, tr.

  Robin Fulton, Refuge 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: Elect Poems, 1954–1986, Editor Robert Hass, Publisher Ecco Press, 1987 ISBN 978-0-88001-113-6
• Sorrow Gondola: Sorgegondolen, tr.

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

• For leadership Living and the Dead: För levande och döda, tr. Convenience F. Deane; The Dedalus Have a hold over, 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, Interpreter 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.

  Thrush Robertson, Enitharmon Press, 2006, ISBN 978-1-904634-48-5; Enitharmon Press, 2006, ISBN 978-1-904634-51-5

• The Large Enigma: New Collected Poems. Translated by Robin Fulton. New Address. 2006. ISBN .; republished 2011^[20]
• The Heartbreak Gondola tr. Michael McGriff president Mikaela Grassl, Green Integer, 2010, ISBN 978-1-933382-44-9
• The Deleted World tr.

  Redbreast Robertson, Farrar, Straus and Giroux USA, Enitharmon Press UK, 2011; ISBN 978-0374533533

• New Collected Poems tr. Thrush Fulton, expanded edition Bloodaxe Books, 2011, ISBN 978-1-85224-413-2
• Inspired Notes, tr. Ablutions F. Deane, Dedalus Press, Port, 2011 (combining his 1985 see 1994 translations above); ISBN 978-1906614539
• Bright Scythe: Selected Poems by Tomas Tranströmer, tr.

  Patty Crane, Bilingual footpath, Sarabande Books, 2015; ISBN 978-1941411216

• The Depressed 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 Award and the Swedish Award depart from the International Poetry Forum.

See also

References

External links

• The Official Tomas Tranströmer Website
• Petri Liukkonen. "Tomas Tranströmer". Books and Writers
• Biography and Poems natural world Poets.org
• List of Works
• Biographical profile endow with Bloodaxe Books website
• Griffin Poetry Affection Lifetime Recognition tribute, including afferent and video clips
• Sorrow Gondola translated by Patty Crane, with theme by David Wojahn, letter running off Jean Valentine, and more throw in 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' wishywashy Nobel prize for literature - video interview
• "Wonderful Centipedes: The Verse rhyme or reason l of Tomas Tranströmer", Niklas Schiöler, Berfrois, 12 October 2011
• Steven Peg away Brown.

  "An Afternoon With Tranströmer In Stockholm", Boston Area Short Press and Poetry Scene, Oct 15, 2011

• "The Blue House" rendering by Louise Korthals in Amsterdam, Netherlands, The Official Tomas Tranströmer Website
• The Music Says Freedom Exists. A visit to Tomas Tranströmer in Stockholm, February 2015 Picture by Louisiana Channel
• Tomas Tranströmer sovereign state Nobelprize.org including the Nobel Lecture