Swedish Writer Tomas Transtromer Gets Nobel Prize

Stockholm, Oct 6: The 2011 Nobel Prize in literature was awarded on Thursday to Tomas Transtromer, a Swedish poet whose surrealistic works about the mysteries of the human mind won him acclaim as one of the most important Scandinavian writers since World War II.

The academy said it awarded the 80-year-old poet “because, through his condensed, translucent images, he gives us fresh access to reality.”

Mr. Transtromer has been a perennial favorite for the 10 million kronor ($1.5 million) award, and in recent years Swedish journalists have waited outside his apartment in Stockholm on the day the literature prize was announced.

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