News at Eleven (Back Page): Tomas Tranströmer is having a good

two weeks: On ­December 10, the 80-year-old Swedish poet was officially given the 2011 Nobel Prize in Literature in Oslo, and on December 19, Farrar, Straus and Giroux will publish a new edition of his verse. To get to this moment, he triumphed o'er what are perhaps the longest economic odds in the arts.

from New York: Livelihoods of the Poets

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