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”At Last”, retired lecturer Staffan Bergsten from Uppsala University exclaimed
when The Nobel Prize in Literature 2011 was awarded to the Swedish poet Tomas
Tranströmer. Together with Tranströmer Bergsten started the university course “Creative
Swedish” in the 1970’s. Today, researchers on Tomas Tranströmer’s poetry are represented
at several of the Swedish universities.
At Stockholm University, Torbjörn Schmidt is currently working on his dissertation.
Schmidt has previously published the book “Air Mail”, a correspondence between Tranströmer
and the American poet Robert Bly. Tranströmer was introduced in the US by Bly
in the 1960’s and since then, international interest in his poetry has grown. Translated
into more than sixty languages, Tranströmer is one of the most translated and read post
World War II poets.
The timing of the appointment is believed to be a result of huge international pressure.
When the disciples of Tranströmer; Derek Walcott, Seamus Heaney and Joseph Brodsky
were awarded with the prize, they wondered why they received it and not the master, says
Tranströmer expert Niklas Schiöler at Lund University.
As a consequence of the Tranströmer fever, a new course has started at Umeå University:
“The Nobel Prize in Literature”.
Visby, April 2012
Jenny Nordenankar
EDITOR
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