What is Tomas Tranströmer?
{{Infobox writer | name = Tomas Tranströmer | image = Transtroemer.jpg | imagesize = 250px | caption = Tranströmer in 2008 | birth_name = Tomas Gösta Tranströmer | birth_date = {{Birth date|1931|04|15|df=y}} | birth_place = [[Stockholm]], Sweden | death_place = Stockholm, Sweden | death_date = {{death date and age|2015|03|26|1931|04|15|df=y}} | occupation = Poet, psychologist | nationality = Swedish |alma_mater=[[Stockholm University]] | period = 1954–2015 | spouse = Monika Bladh | notableworks = {{plainlist| *''The Half-Finished Heaven'' *''Windows and Stones'' *''[[Baltics (poem)|Baltics]]'' *''[[For the Living and the Dead]]'' *''[[The Sorrow Gondola]]'' }} | awards = {{Awd|[[Nobel Prize in Literature]]|2011}} | signature = }} '''Tomas Gösta Tranströmer''' (15 April 1931 &ndash; 26 March 2015) was a [[Swedes|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. In November 1990 he lost his speech and the use of his right hand as a result of a stroke. As if anticipating his own fate, in his longest poem ''Baltics'' (1974), he had referred to the story of a composer who became speechless and hemiplegic after a brain bleed: Then, cerebral hemorrhage: paralysis on the right side with aphasia,/ can grasp only short phrases, says the wrong words/ Beyond the reach of eulogy or execration./ But the music’s left, he goes on composing in his own style,/ for the rest of his days he becomes a medical sensation./ He wrote music to texts he no longer understood/ in the same way/ we express something through our lives/ in the humming chorus full of mistaken words. Himself a lifelong amateur pianist and a psychologist by trade, Tranströmer carried on playing the piano with his left hand after the stroke. What makes Tranströmer a medical sensation