Tomas Tranströmer Biography | Poet

Tomas Gösta Tranströmer (Swedish:  ['tmas 'jœs'ta 'trn'strœmr] ; born 15 April 1931) is a Swedish poet, psychologist and translator. His poems capture the long Swedish winters, the rhythm of the seasons and the palpable, atmospheric beauty of nature. Tranströmer's work is also characterized by a sense of mystery and wonder underlying the routine of everyday life, a quality which often gives his poems a religious dimension. Indeed, he has been described as a Christian poet.