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Nobel Prize Goes to Transtromer
Oct 06 2011
Tomas Tranströmer, called "Sweden's most famous poet," has won the 104th Nobel Prize for Literature. Tranströmer, born in Stockholm in 1931, has been translated into over 50 languages.
A number of his books have been released in the U.S. including The Sorrow Gondola, The Half-Finished Heaven: The Best Poems of Tomas Tranströmer, and The Great Enigma: New and Collected Poems
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