ABOUT TOMAS TRANSTROMER
Swedish poet and Nobel Prize in Literature recipient whose well-known poetic works include The Sorrow Gondola, For the Living and the Dead, and Baltics. His friend and fellow poet, Robert Bly , translated many of his poetic works into English.
He published his debut poetry collection, Seventeen Poems, in 1954.
After graduating from Stockholm University, he worked as a psychologist for juvenile criminals.
He was raised in Stockholm, Sweden by a schoolteacher mother. He married Monika Bladh.
He won the Nobel Prize in Literature two years after Herta Muller earned the same honor.
