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Tomas Tranströmer

Born

in Stockholm, Sweden

April 15, 1931

Died

March 26, 2015

Website

http://tomastranstromer.net/

Genre

Poetry, Short Stories, Memoir

Influences

Ragnar Thoursie, T.S. Eliot,

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His poetry, building on Modernism, Expressionism, and Surrealism, contains powerful imagery concerned with issues of fragmentation and isolation. “He has perfected a particular kind of epiphanic lyric, often in quatrains, in which nature is the active, energizing subject, and the self (if the self is present at all) is the object,” notes critic Katie Peterson in the Boston Review.

Critic and poet Tom Sleigh observed, in his Interview with a Ghost (2006), that “Tranströmer’s poems imagine the spaces that the deep then inhabits, like ground water gushing up into a newly dug well.”

His honors include the Lifetime Recognition Award from the Griffin Trust for Excellence in Poetry, the Aftonbladets Literary Prize, the Bonnier Award for Poetry, the ...more

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Average rating: 4.02 · 8,314 ratings · 1,037 reviews · 158 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Great Enigma: New Collected Poems by Tomas Tranströmer, Robin Fulton (Translator) 4.28 avg rating — 1,326 ratings — published 2006 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Half-Finished Heaven by Tomas Tranströmer, Robert Bly (Translator) 4.18 avg rating — 1,090 ratings — published 1962 — 16 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Memories Look at Me by Tomas Tranströmer, Robin Fulton (Translator) 3.66 avg rating — 791 ratings — published 1993 — 26 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dikter och prosa 1954–2004 4.14 avg rating — 568 ratings — published 2004 — 19 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Deleted World by Tomas Tranströmer, Robin Robertson (Translator) 4.20 avg rating — 496 ratings — published 2006 — 16 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Selected Poems, 1954-1986 by Tomas Tranströmer, Robert Hass (Editor), May Swenson (Translator) 4.25 avg rating — 488 ratings — published 1981 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Sorrow Gondola by Tomas Tranströmer, Michael McGriff (Translator), Mikaela Grassl (Translation) 3.66 avg rating — 413 ratings — published 1996 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Samlade dikter: 1954–1996 4.06 avg rating — 299 ratings — published 2001 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Baltics 3.94 avg rating — 234 ratings — published 1974 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Bright Scythe: Selected Poems by Tomas Tranströmer by Tomas Tranströmer, David Wojahn (Introduction), Patty Crane (Translation) 4.27 avg rating — 205 ratings — published 2015 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Series by Tomas Tranströmer

Liryka i Metafizyka (1 book)
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Tomas Tranströmer,

Łukasz Winiarski (Translator),

Magdalena Wasilewska-Chmura (Translator),

Czesław Miłosz (Translator),

Leonard Neuger (Translator),

Michał Sprusiński (Translator)

it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings

Quotes by Tomas Tranströmer (?)

“In the middle of life, death comes
to take your measurements. The visit
is forgotten and life goes on. But the suit
is being sewn on the sly.”
― Tomas Tranströmer, The Deleted World

tags: death, poetry

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“I am carried in my shadow
like a violin
in its black case”
― Tomas Tranströmer, For the Living and the Dead

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“Every person is a half-opened door
leading to a room for everyone.”
― Tomas Transtromer

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