[Tomas] 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.In truth, though, Transtromer is far from obscure. Since the 1960s, when his work first began to appear in English--translated by Robert Bly, Robert Hass, May Swenson and others--he has been one of the most regularly translated European poets. On this, the morning of the prize, Transtromer has already been translated into over 50 languages.
from John Freeman: NPR: Monkey See: Nobel Literature Winner Tomas Transtromer: The Beauty Of Stillness
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