Nobel Prize

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Swedish Utopia En ö där allting bara klarnar. Här kan man stå på bevisens grund. Den enda väg här finns är den framkomliga vägen. Buskarna bara dignar under alla svaren. Här växer Riktiga Förmodans träd med sina sedan gammalt utredda grenar. Det storstilat raka Förståelsens träd vid källan som heter Å På Så Vis. Ju…

Your Majesties Your Royal Highnesses Excellencies Ladies and Gentlemen FRIENDS! On behalf of my husband, Tomas Tranströmer, I want you to know how honored and how moved he is to receive the Nobel Prize. Thank you Swedish Academy: thank you for your courage and your beautiful prize citation. Special thanks to all…

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Works in Swedish Poetry collections 17 dikter. – Stockholm : Bonnier, 1954 Hemligheter på vägen. – Stockholm : Bonnier, 1958 Den halvfärdiga himlen. – Stockholm : Bonnier, 1962 Klanger och spår. – Stockholm : Bonnier, 1966 Mörkerseende. – Göteborg : Författarförlaget, 1970 Stigar / Tomas Tranströmer, Robert Bly, János Pilinszky ; övers. av Tomas Tranströmer…

Five Poems by Tomas Tranströmer English Allegro I play Haydn after a black day and feel a simple warmth in my hands. The keys are willing. Soft hammers strike. The resonance green, lively and calm. The music says freedom exists and someone doesn’t pay the emperor tax. I push down my hands in my Haydnpockets…

Read the introduction by Peter Englund, Permanent Secretary of the Swedish Academy Programme of Texts English © Tomas Tranströmer, Albert Bonniers Förlag. © Tomas Tranströmer, Bloodaxe Books Ltd. Publication in periodicals or books requires the consent of the author and the publisher, Albert Bonniers Förlag, and for the English translation, Bloodaxe Books…

Artist: John Stenborg Calligrapher: Annika Rücker Book binder: Ingemar Dackéus Photo reproduction: Lovisa Engblom

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