Tomas Tranströmer
Tranströmer in 2008
Born	Tomas Gösta Tranströmer (1931-04-15)15 April 1931 Stockholm, Sweden
Died	26 March 2015(2015-03-26) (aged 83) Stockholm, Sweden
Occupation	Poet, psychologist
Nationality	Swedish
Alma mater	Stockholm University
Period	1954–2015
Notable works	The Half-Finished Heaven Windows and Stones Baltics For the Living and the Dead The Sorrow Gondola
Notable awards	Nobel Prize in Literature 2011
Spouse	Monika Bladh

Tomas Gösta Tranströmer (15 April 1931 – 26 March 2015) was a Swedish poet, psychologist and translator. He was awarded the 1990 Neustadt International Prize for Literature and the 2011 Nobel Prize in Literature.

Tranströmer was born in Stockholm. He was married to Monica Bladh and had two daughters, Emma and Paula. He had a stroke in 1990, leaving him with aphasia and without the use of his right hand.

Tranströmer died after a short illness on 26 March 2015 at his home in Stockholm, aged 83.^[1]

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