biography
pronunciation:
[transtroemer]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1931– )
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| biography:
| Poet and psychologist, born in Stockholm, Sweden. He studied at Stockholm University, then worked as a psychologist, including a spell at Roxtuna institution for young offenders. His first collection of poems, 17 dikter (1954, 17 Poems), aroused attention, and he has become a leading poet of the post-war era. His 10 collections of poems have been translated into English by Robin Fulton in Three Swedish Poets (1970), Selected Poems (1974), and Collected Poems (1987). |
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