Tomas Tranströmer died, Nobel Prize in 2011 – Digital Journal

The Swedish poet Tomas Tranströmer, awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2011, and who wrote about Lisbon and Funchal, died at age 83, said today its editor .

Tomas Tranströmer suffered in 1990 a stroke that affected his ability to speak and write.

In 2011, he was awarded the Nobel, the poet Casimiro Brito told Lusa that Tranströmer was “the largest or one of the greatest poets of the world.”

In Portugal, the poet has published the anthology ’50 Poems’, an Alexander Shepherd translation, the publisher Clock d ‘Water, and’ My memories watching me, followed by First Poems’, with an afterword by Pedro Mexia, a Sextant edition. This work is recommended by the National Reading Plan

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