Awards & Winners

Tomas Tranströmer

Date of Birth 15-April-1931
Place of Birth Stockholm
(Sweden, Stockholm County, Stockholm Municipality)
Nationality Sweden
Also know as Tomas Transtromer, Tomas Tranströmer
Profession Writer, Poet, Author, Novelist, Translator, Psychologist
Tomas Gösta Tranströmer is a Swedish poet, psychologist and translator. His poems capture 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. Indeed, he has been described as a Christian poet. Tranströmer is acclaimed as one of the most important Scandinavian writers since the Second World War. Critics have praised his poetry for its accessibility, even in translation. His poetry has been translated into over 60 languages. He is the recipient of the 1990 Neustadt International Prize for Literature and the 2011 Nobel Prize in Literature.

Awards by Tomas Tranströmer

Check all the awards nominated and won by Tomas Tranströmer.

2011


Nobel Prize in Literature
(because, through his condensed, translucent images, he gives us fresh access to reality)

1990


Nordic Council's Literature Prize
Honored for : For the Living and the Dead
(Sweden)
Neustadt International Prize for Literature

Nominations 1990 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Nordic Council's Literature Prize For the Living and the Dead
Sweden
Neustadt International Prize for Literature