Tomas Tranströmer dies, winner of Nobel Prize for Literature 2011 – Terra Peru

The Swedish writer Tomas Tranströmer, Nobel Prize for Literature 2011, died on March 26, 2015 at 83 years of age, the Swedish Academy said.

“We are saddened by the loss of the Swedish poet Tomas Tranströmer, who died at 83 years,” said the Academy in the social network Twitter to confirm the news that minutes before advancing the press Local.

Besides being poet Tomas Tranströmer was psychologist and a philanthropist exceptional.

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Tranströmer, besides poet was a psychologist and was dedicated to the rehabilitation of juvenile offenders, was born in 1931 in Stockholm and debuted in 1954 with his book ’17 Dikter ‘(17 poems).

The work of Tranströmer has been translated into about 50 languages, including Spanish, and among other important awards had been awarded the Bonnier Award for Poetry, the Neustadt Prize or Germany’s Petrarch Prize.

“Through his condensed, translucent gave us fresh access to reality images,” argued the Swedish Academy on its decision to award the Nobel Tranströmer, who was also the first poet awarded the Nobel after the Polish Wislawa Szymborska in 1996 and succeeded the Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa.

Tranströmer suffered a stroke in 1990, which left reduced their speech and mobility, so the traditional annual reading that Laureate in Literature at the Swedish Academy consisted in the case of Tranströmer, in just a tribute to the poet attended, wheelchair, accompanied by his wife.

Tomas Tranströmer received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2011, a year after the Peruvian Mario Vargas Llosa.

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