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1931–2015 Sweden
Tomas Gösta Tranströmer (Swedish pronunciation: ; 15 April 1931 – 26 March 2015) was a Swedish writer, poet, translator and recipient of the 2011 Nobel Prize in Literature.
Sweden Nobel laureates Poets Translators Also known as: Tomas Transtromer
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Above ground,
The scientific method I was closest to was the Linnaean: discover, collect, examine.
My total experience of school was mixed, with more darkness than light. Just as my image of society has become.
I was, however, more interested in steam engines than in electric ones. In other words, I was more romantic than technical.
We always feel younger than we are. I carry inside myself my earlier faces, as a tree contains its rings. The sum of them is me. The mirror sees only my latest face, while I know all my previous ones.