# Tomas Tranströmer

> A Swedish poet who made winter feel like a metaphysical event. Tranströmer wrote spare, crystalline verse about seasons and silence that translated so cleanly it reached readers in over 60 languages - and won him the Nobel in 2011.

*Swedish poet, psychologist and translator (1931-2015)*

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## Identity
- **Profile type:** Writer / Author
- **Category:** Writers
- **Country:** Sweden
- **Born:** 1931-04-15
- **Died:** 2015-03-26
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

Born 15 April 1931, Tranströmer trained as a psychologist but lived as a poet, drawn to the long Scandinavian winters and the strange weight of ordinary moments. His poems found mystery in routine - snow, light, the turn of a season - often carrying what critics called a religious undertone without ever preaching. The work traveled: translated into more than 60 languages, it kept its clarity across borders, a rare feat for poetry. Awards accumulated, then the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2011, cementing him as the most important Scandinavian writer of the postwar era. He died 26 March 2015, leaving poems that still feel like held breath.

## Fame
- **Popularity score:** 68.4 / 100
- **Momentum:** 3.4 / 100  (trend: STABLE)
- **Historical depth:** 24.2 / 100
- **Attention shift:** 11.7 / 100
- **Source confidence:** 70.0 / 100
- **Profile completeness:** 80.0 / 100

## Platforms
- **IMDB**: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm7395768/ (@nm7395768)
- **WEBSITE**: http://tomastranstromer.net

## Topics
#Writers, #Writer / Author, #Poetry, #Literature, #Sweden, #Europe, #20th Century

## Timeline
- **2015** - Died
- **2011** - Nobel Prize in Literature
- **2003** - Golden Wreath
- **1996** - August Prize
- **1992** - Litteris et Artibus
- **1990** - Nordic Council Literature Prize
- **1985** - Aniara Award
- **1981** - Kellgren Award
- **1958** - Aftonbladet Literary Award
- **1931** - Born

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