When Barbara Epler received the news last week that Swedish poet Tomas Tranströmer had won the Nobel Prize for literature, she had one reaction: “I said, ‘Call the printers!’” she recalled. Ms. Epler ...

It’s truly heartwarming to see the Literature prize go to Tomas Tranströmer. One can see how the Swedish Academy might have resisted giving the prize to a local boy out of some sense of propriety, so ...

Scratch beneath the surface of just about any successful career in science, art, or human affairs and you’re sure to find wide-ranging interests. For some time now we’ve been scratching through the ...

Not to be confused with the Michael Bay franchise, the 80-year-old Swedish psychologist and poet Tomas Tranströmer, just awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, writes surreal, imagistic poems that ...

“Tranströmer!” Of course, I knew immediately what the email message meant. After years of waiting among the also-rans, and amid speculation that this was the year for an Arab poet to win the Nobel ...

Tomas Tranströmer, trans. from the Swedish by Patty Crane. Sarabande (Consortium, dist.), $17.95 (240p) ISBN 978-1-941411-21-6 Swedish Nobel laureate Tranströmer (1931–2015) was often admired for his ...

Since this morning’s announcement of Tomas Tranströmer as the 2011 Nobel Prize-winner in Literature, the Swedish poet’s collections have catapulted upward in sales rankings on Amazon. Since this ...

All kinds of rumors have been going around in New York publishing about who would win this year’s Nobel prize All kinds of rumors have been going around in New York publishing about who would win this ...

In our solitary journeys to the interior we are not alone. "I've listened long enough to the timid cry from the wilderness," Tomas Tranströmer wrote in his 1953 essay, "Notes from the Land of Lap ...

Tomas Tranströmer, a Swedish poet who received the Nobel Prize in literature in 2011 for a body of work that made him known as a “master of metaphor,” died March 26. He was 83. His death was announced ...

The Nobel Prize in literature was awarded Thursday to a psychologist who used his spare time to craft sparsely written poems about the mysteries of everyday life - commuting to work, watching the sun ...