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Tomas Tranströmer

1931 - 2015

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Tomas Gösta Tranströmer (Swedish: [ˈtʊ̌mːas ˈjœ̂sːta ˈtrâːnˌstrœmːɛr]; 15 April 1931 – 26 March 2015) was a Swedish poet, psychologist and translator. His poems captured the long winters in Sweden, the rhythm of the seasons and the palpable, atmospheric beauty of nature. Tranströmer's work is also characterized by a sense of mystery and wonder underlying the routine of everyday life, a quality which often gives his poems a religious dimension. He has been described as a Christian poet. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Tomas Tranströmer is the 161st most popular writer (up from 219th in 2019), the 21st most popular biography from Sweden (up from 30th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Swedish Writer.

Tomas Tranströmer is most famous for his poetry. He is a Swedish poet who has won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2011.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Tomas Tranströmer ranks 161 out of 7,302. Before him are H. P. Lovecraft, Mary Shelley, Samuel Beckett, Eugène Ionesco, Ivan Turgenev, and Henryk Sienkiewicz. After him are Guillaume Apollinaire, Jean Racine, Elias Canetti, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Novalis, and Heinrich Böll.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1931, Tomas Tranströmer ranks 7. Before him are Mikhail Gorbachev, Boris Yeltsin, Rajneesh, Toni Morrison, A. P. J. Abdul Kalam, and Raúl Castro. After him are James Dean, Chun Doo-hwan, Isabel Martínez de Perón, Mário Zagallo, Robert Duvall, and Irvin D. Yalom. Among people deceased in 2015, Tomas Tranströmer ranks 9. Before him are B.B. King, A. P. J. Abdul Kalam, Charles H. Townes, Günter Grass, Lemmy, and Christopher Lee. After him are Nicholas Winton, Abdullah of Saudi Arabia, Demis Roussos, Terry Pratchett, Omar Sharif, and Kim Young-sam.

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In Sweden

Among people born in Sweden, Tomas Tranströmer ranks 21 out of 1,879. Before him are Jöns Jacob Berzelius (1779), Oscar II of Sweden (1829), Dag Hammarskjöld (1905), Charles XII of Sweden (1682), Ingrid Bergman (1915), and Bridget of Sweden (1303). After him are Sigismund III Vasa (1566), Ingvar Kamprad (1926), Gustaf V of Sweden (1858), Gustav I of Sweden (1496), Charles XV of Sweden (1826), and Charles X Gustav of Sweden (1622).

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Among WRITERS In Sweden

Among writers born in Sweden, Tomas Tranströmer ranks 4. Before him are Astrid Lindgren (1907), Selma Lagerlöf (1858), and August Strindberg (1849). After him are Pär Lagerkvist (1891), Eyvind Johnson (1900), Harry Martinson (1904), Verner von Heidenstam (1859), Henning Mankell (1948), Stieg Larsson (1954), Jan Guillou (1944), and Ellen Key (1849).

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