Tomas Tranströmer

Tomas Tranströmer was born in 1931 in Stockholm and was raised by his mother, a schoolteacher, after his father left. A psychologist by profession, he spent his whole career in a reformatory for young people, then in institutions for the disabled and in employment services. Struck in 1990 by a stroke that deprived him of speech and of the use of his right hand, he continued to write and to play the piano with his left hand, on pieces composed for him by musicians. Translated into sixty languages, a Nobel laureate in 2011, he died in Stockholm in 2015.

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• PoetryBalticsÖstersjöarTomas Tranströmer · 1974Literature