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Thomas Tranströmer has appeared among the list of nominees for this prize for many years, but it is his year. The Nobel Prize for literature for 2011 was awarded to the Swedish poet Tomas Tranströmer. He was awarded about $1,5 million too. This is not the first literary award for Tranströmer: he was awarded the Bonnier prizes for poetry, the Neustadt International Prize for Literature, the Oewvralids, the Petrache of Germany and the award from Swedish International Poetry Forum.
His daughter, Paula Tranströmer, says that she and her father were in shock.
She
says he found out about five minutes before the announcement on
television so he had not had time to prepare, so he was very
calm, but she thinks he is still in shock.
Thomas Tranströmer was born in Stockholm in 1931. He is a psychologist,
writer, poet and Swedish translator. International criticism considered
him one of the most important Swedish poets.
Tranströmer is well known for expressing a lot in a few words. His poetry has been translated into fifty languages.
