Nobel Literature Winner Tomas Transtromer: The Beauty of Stillness
John Freeman - Book Review el Mon, Oct 10th 2011
Like a glass-blower by a wintry sea, Tomas Transtromer has been slowly and painstakingly making poems in his native Stockholm since the early 1950s. A private man in his work and life, Transtromer has been following Thoreau's example for 50 years. He will have more difficulty doing that after today's announcement that he is this year's winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature.