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Poet Tomas Transtromer won the 2011 Nobel Prize in Literature

Swedish poet Tomas Tranströmer won the 2011 Nobel Prize for Literature in Stockholm. According to the Swedish Academy Tranströmer, 80 won "because, through his condensed, translucent images he gives us fresh access to reality."

After 40 years since another Swedish writer has won a Nobel Prize for Literature, Tomas is a powerful poet who's poetry has recently been published by independent press. "The Half-Finished Heaven" (Graywolf) is a collection of selected poems that was published in 2001; a larger collection, "The Great Enigma" was published by New Directions in 2006. His "Selected Poems" was published by Ecco, a division of HarperCollins, in 2000.

Mr. Tranströmer briefly worked as a psychologist at a youth correctional facility.

In 2010 Peruvian writer and essayist Mario Vargas Llosa won the Nobel Prize, as for 2009 German writer Herta Muller was awarded with a Nobel Prize.

The Nobel prize, worth $1.5 million (U.S.), and is the largest and most prestigious literary award in the world. Its value to the publisher or promoter of a laureate’s novel, poetry or play is estimated to be in the tens of millions.

Poet Tomas Transtromer won the 2011 Nobel Prize in Literature

 
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