Swedish poet won the 2011 Nobel Prize for Literature

The Nobel Prize for Literature in 2011 honored the Swedish poet, Tomas Transtroemer.

In the announcement ceremony on October 6 in the Swedish capital Stockholm, the Nobel Prize Committee emphasized by the poetic and rich works of poetry, the pure and condensed language he brought to mankind. a pristine approach to reality.

Born in 1931 in Stockholm, Stockholm is considered an influential poet in the world. He graduated from the Department of Psychology at Stockholm University in 1956. From an early age, Transtroemer had a passion for literature and began writing poetry at the age of 13.

Tomas Transtroemer

His first volume of poetry came to his readers in 1954. His latest poem "Den stora gatan" (Big Mystery) was published in 2004. In addition to poetry, Transtroemer also wrote a short memoir titled "Minnerna ser mig" (Memories are looking at me).

In his literary career, poet Transtroemer has been awarded many international awards, including the German Petrarch Prize (1981) and the Bonnier Prize for poetry (1983). So far his poetry works have been translated into more than 50 languages ​​around the world.

The Nobel Prize for Literature is one of the two most awaited categories of Nobel Prizes, next to the Nobel Peace Prize, and often predictions tend to be more often than winning, as prizes tend to be given to non-authors. is widespread in the global literary readership community.

Recent Transtroemer winners include: Mario Vargas Llosa, Herta Mueller, Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio, Doris Lessing, Orhan Pamuk, Harold Pinter, Elfriede Jelinek, JM Coetzee, Imre Kertesz, VS Naipaul, High Action, Guenter Grass, Jose Saramago, Dario Fo and Wislawa Szymborska.

Before the 2011 Nobel Literature was announced, there was speculation that the Syrian poet Adonis would win the prize, because the political situation in Syria was attracting the attention of the whole world. In June, Adonis, real name Ali Ahmed Said, now living in France, posted a public letter to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in a Lebanese newspaper asking him to stop suppressing protesters. .

In the list of candidates this year, there is a writer familiar to Vietnamese readers, Japanese author Haruki Murakami, who is well known for his works that have been translated into Vietnamese like Norwegian Forest. , The bird chronicle turned on the wire . But eventually, Murakami made an appointment with the world's most prestigious literary prize.

Another heavyweight competitor also slipped in to the US music legend Bob Dylan, who came to Vietnam to perform in the middle of the year.