Tomas Transtromer

Poet

Birthday April 15, 1931

Birth Sign Aries

Birthplace Sweden

DEATH DATE Mar 26, 2015 (83)

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About

Swedish poet and Nobel Prize in Literature recipient whose well-known poetic works include The Sorrow Gondola, For the Living and the Dead, and Baltics. His friend and fellow poet, Robert Bly, translated many of his poetic works into English.

Before Fame

He published his debut poetry collection, Seventeen Poems, in 1954.

Trivia

After graduating from Stockholm University, he worked as a psychologist for juvenile criminals.

Family Life

He was raised in Stockholm, Sweden by a schoolteacher mother. He married Monika Bladh.

Associated With

He won the Nobel Prize in Literature two years after Herta Muller earned the same honor.