Tomas Tranströmer, a poet of daily life – El Colombiano

The Nobel Prize for Literature in 2011, the Swedish Tomas Tranströmer , died at age 83, 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 earlier and took for granted the local press.

Tranströmer, who 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 Petrarch Prize in Germany.

“Through his condensed, translucent gave us fresh access to reality images,” argued the Swedish Academy in its decision to award the Nobel Prize in 2011 Tranströmer.

It was also the first awarded the Nobel after the Polish Wislawa Szymborska in 1996 poet.

The brevity and economy of means that characterizes the work of Tranströmer is combines very well with that genre which is a high formal requirement.

“It’s like three lines the sky is invented again,” said Swedish writer Aris Fioretto on the haikus of Tranströmer, partly gathered in the great unknown.

Tranströmer suffered a stroke in 1990, which left reduced their speech and mobility, so the traditional reading each year in the Swedish Academy Laureate in Literature consisted possibly in homage attended by the poet in a wheelchair, accompanied by his wife, Monica.