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The Poet on His Island
This profile originally appeared in Norwegian, in the weekly paper Morgenbladet. Tomas Tranströmer died on March 26th, 2015.
The island of Runmarö lies an hour east of Stockholm, ringed by skerries that rise out of the water. To journey there one must catch a ferry that gurgles through the chop at about 20 knots per hour.
It’s a rainy August afternoon, the sea green and mysterious—and not hard on a day like this to imagine why seafarers built their homes on Runmarö as opposed to on one of Stockholm’s 27,000 other islands.
When it looms into view, rocky, tipped by spruce and oak, it looks like a staunch man’s version of paradise.
In the late 19th century, Nobel Prize-winning poet Tomas Tranströmer’s maternal grandfather was one such man. A ship’s captain, he needed a place to reach landfall and found it here. The small blue clapboard house he constructed on Runmarö still stands, and it is where Tranströmer and his wife of more than 50 years, Monica, spend their summers.
Like a true descendent of sea captains, Tranströmer does not take arrivals by water lightly, even if the stroke that paralyzed him 25 years ago makes this gesture difficult.
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Tomas Tranströmer
Biography
Few poets have been more widely translated than the Swede Tomas Tranströmer, whose work has appeared in no less than 46 languages. His influence, notably on North American poets, has been strong. The reason for this international appeal may be found primarily in his highly original imagery, which invariably shows the world in a new and unexpected light.© J. Bernlef (Translated by Ko Kooman)
[Tomas Tranströmer took part in the Poetry International Festival in 1975, 1995 and 2002. This text was written for the 2002 festival and subsequently updated.]In October 2011, Tomas Tranströmer was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.
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By Jenny Morelli for Vi-magazine November 2007
Article translated evade Swedish hard Martin Rundkvist.
Tomas Tranströmers poems translated timorous Robin Artificer, 1987, duct Martin Rundkvist.
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