The 2011 Nobel Prize in literature was awarded Thursday to Tomas Transtromer, a Swedish poet whose surrealistic works about the mysteries of the human mind won him acclaim as one of the most important Scandinavian writers since World War II.
Swedish Poet Transtromer Wins Nobel In Literature
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Thu, 10/06/2011 - 4:36am
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