Thomas Tranströmer

Tomas Gösta Tranströmer (Swedish: Tomas Gösta Tranströmer, April 15, 1931 - March 26, 2015, born in Stockholm, Sweden) is one of the best poets in Sweden today, as well as a psychologist and translator. He has authored more than ten volumes of poetry, which have been translated into more than 30 languages, especially Dutch, English and Hungarian. Tranström published his first collection of poems "17 Poems" in 1954, which caused a sensation in the Swedish poetry world and became a highlight of the Swedish poetry scene in the 1950s. After becoming famous, he successively published poetry collections "Secrets on the Road" (1958), "The Half-Complete Sky" (1962), and "Tone and Footsteps" (19 66), "Seeing the Dark" (1970), "The Path" (1973), "Obstacles of Truth" (1978) and "Savage Square" (1983), "For the Living and the Dead" (1989), "The Sorrowful Gondola" (1996), etc., has won a number of international and Swedish literary awards, and has considerable international influence. Tranström has been nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature many times, and finally won the award in 2011, "because through his concise and transparent imagery, we experience the real world in a new way."