Nobelul pentru literatură merge la suedezul Tomas Tranströmer. Era primul în cotele de pariuri ieri. Acum n-ar fi rău să-l şi citim să vedem dacă a meritat…
Poetul suedez a vizitat România în 2003, cu ocazia lansării volumului de poeme Pagini din cartea nopţii (trad. Dan Shafran, Ed. Polirom), la Librăria Cărtureşti. În 2005 i-a apărut în limba română un al doilea volum, Taina cea mare (trad. Dan Shafran, Ed. Polirom).
Scurtă biografie a poetului şi psihologului:
Born in Stockholm in 1931, Tranströmer studied at the University of Stockholm and worked as a psychologist at an institution for young offenders. His first collection of poetry, 17 Dikter (17 Poems, was published in 1954, while he was still at college. Collections including Hemligheter på vägen (1958) and Klangar och spår (1966) reflected on his travels in the Balkans, Spain and Africa, while the poems in Östersjöar (1974) examine the troubled history of the Baltic region through the conflict between sea and land.
He suffered a stroke in 1990 which affected his ability to talk, but has continued to write, with his collection Sorgegondolen going on to sell 30,000 copies on its pubilcation in 1996. At a recent appearance in London, his words were read by others, while the poet, who is a keen amateur musician, contributed by playing pieces specially composed for him to play on the piano with only his left hand.
Tranströmer has described his poems as “meeting places,” where dark and light, interior and exterior collide to give a sudden connection with the world, history or ourselves. According to the poet “The language marches in step with the executioners. Therefore we must get a new language.” (sursa)
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Ca o primă concluzie: o lovitură pentru editori. Poeţii nu se cumpără nici dacă iau Nobel, haha. Un premiu ne-comercial. Aşa, de criză. @N
