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English Presentation Speech by Professor Sven Lidin, Member of the ; Member of the Nobel Committee for Chemistry, 10 December 2011 Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, For three millennia we have known that five-fold symmetry is incompatible with periodicity, and for almost three centuries we believed that periodicity was a prerequisite for…

French Tomas Tranströmer est né le 15 avril 1931 à Stockholm. Sa mère Helmy est institutrice et son père Gösta Tranströmer rédacteur. Après son baccalauréat en 1950 au lycée de Södra Latin, il commence des études de lettres avec poétique, histoire de la religion et psychologie à l’université de Stockholm – matières comprises dans sa…

Swedish Tomas Tranströmer är född den 15 april 1931 i Stockholm. Han är son till folkskolläraren Helmy och redaktören Gösta Tranströmer. Efter studentexamen 1950 från Södra Latins gymnasium påbörjade han studier i litteraturhistoria med poetik, religionshistoria samt psykologi vid Stockholms högskola – ämnen som ingick i hans filosofie kandidatexamen 1956. Efter att han avslutat sina…

Spanish Secretario permanente Nota de prensa 6 de octubre del 2011 El premio Nobel de literatura 2011 Tomas Tranströmer El premio Nobel de literatura 2011 ha sido otorgado al poeta sueco Tomas Tranströmer ”por ofrecernos, en imágenes densas y diáfanas, una nueva vía de acceso a lo real”.

English The Permanent Secretary Press release 6 October 2011 The Nobel Prize in Literature 2011 Tomas Tranströmer The Nobel Prize in Literature for 2011 is awarded to the Swedish poet Tomas Tranströmer “because, through his condensed, translucent images, he gives us fresh access to reality”.

German Der ständige Sekretär Pressemitteilung 6. Oktober 2011 Der Nobelpreis in Literatur des Jahres 2011 Tomas Tranströmer Der Nobelpreis in Literatur des Jahres 2011 wird dem schwedischen Poeten Tomas Tranströmer verliehen „weil er uns in komprimierten, erhellenden Bildern neue Wege zum Wirklichen weist“.

English Biobibliographical notes Tomas Tranströmer was born in Stockholm on 15 April 1931. His mother Helmy was a schoolteacher and his father Gösta Tranströmer a journalist. After graduating in 1950 from Södra Latin grammar school he studied literature history and poetics, the history of religion, and psychology at Stockholm University – subjects he took for…

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