Swedish poet Tomas Transtromer has won the 2011 Nobel literature prize.
The academy said it awarded the 80-year-old poet “because, through his condensed, translucent images, he gives us fresh access to reality.”
A trained psychologist, Transtromer wins the £942,000 prize – the richest in the world of books.
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Night, two o’clock, moonlight. The train has stopped
in the middle of the plain. Distant bright points of a town
twinkle cold on the horizon.
As when someone has gone into a dream so far
that he’ll never remember he was there
when he comes back to his room.
And as when someone goes into a sickness so deep
that all his former days become twinkling points, a swarm,
cold and feeble on the... See more
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Night, two o’clock, moonlight. The train has stopped
in the middle of the plain. Distant bright points of a town
twinkle cold on the horizon.
As when someone has gone into a dream so far
that he’ll never remember he was there
when he comes back to his room.
And as when someone goes into a sickness so deep
that all his former days become twinkling points, a swarm,
cold and feeble on the horizon.
The train stands perfectly still.
Two o’clock: full moonlight, few stars.
Tomas Transtromer
(translated from the Swedish by Robert Bly) ▲ Collapse
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