Tomas Transtromer is a Swedish writer, poet and translator, whose poetry has been translated into over 60 languages.Transtromer is acclaimed as one of the most important Scandinavian writers since World War II. He was awarded the 2011 Nobel Prize in Literature.
"Transtromer may be unfamiliar to many American readers, but he was the subject of a Washington Post profile in 1986, his work has been translated into more than 60 languages, and his name has been kicked around among the Nobel-selecting crowd for years, along with such better-known writers as Philip Roth, Thomas Pynchon and even Bob Dylan (a betting favorite among British oddsmakers this week).Hours after the prize was announced, Transtromer’s “The Great Enigma” (2006) soared onto the top-20 best-selling books on Amazon. "- Washigton Post
Here is one of his poems "Mid Winter"
A blue light
radiates from my clothing.
Midwinter.
Clattering tambourines of ice.
I close my eyes.
There is a silent world
there is a crack
where the dead
are smuggled across the border.
I don't really get this poem, but I can tell that it must be really deep and well thought since this guy won the nobel peace prize.
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