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Tomas Tranströmer

Tomas Tranströmer
Tomas Tranströmer, Swedish poet, translator, and psychologist Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2015)

Tomas Gösta Tranströmer was a Swedish poet, psychologist and translator. His poems captured the long Swedish winters, the rhythm of the seasons and the palpable, atmospheric beauty of nature. Tranströmer's work is also characterized by a sense of mystery and wonder underlying the routine of everyday life, a quality which often gives his poems a religious dimension. He has been described as a Christian poet.

15 April 1931

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