Name: Tomas Tranströmer
Year Won: 2011
Read: The Selected Poems of Tomas Tranströmer
Original Language: Swedish
Reason: "because, through his condensed, translucent images, he gives us fresh access to reality"
About: It's a book of poems. I'm not sure what else to say.
What I liked: I suppose they were pretty and there were some interesting images? I'm not really sure how to describe poems.
What I Disliked: These poems didn't particularly gel for me. I can't really say why, they just didn't.
Should it have won a Nobel: I find it almost impossible to describe whether poetry is good or not even in English, far less in translation. For me, these poems didn't particularly work. But they might work better in Swedish, or resonate for someone else. So...who knows?
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