Tomas Transtromer

Memories Look at Me: A Memoir (eBook, ePUB)

Übersetzer: Fulton, Robin

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Tomas Tranströmer's touching memoir.

Written a few years after Transtromer suffered a stroke that left him unable to speak, Memories Look at Me is Tomas Tranströmer's lyrical autobiography about growing up in Sweden. His story opens with a streak of light, a comet that becomes a brilliant metaphor for my life as he tries to penetrate the earliest, formative memories of his past. This childhood life unfolds itself slowly in eight glistening chapters that gradually reveal the most secret of treasures: how Tranströmer discovered poetry.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: New Directions
• Seitenzahl: 64
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Dezember 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780811220194
• Artikelnr.: 59590751

Autorenporträt

Nobel Prize Laureate and beloved Swedish poet Tomas Tranströmer (19312015) was born in Stockholm and worked as a psychologist. He wrote ten collections of poems that the Nobel Prize Committee praised for their condensed, translucent images that give us fresh access to reality. The best-known Scandinavian poet of the postwar period, and the most widely translated, his other books available in English include Selected Poems 19541986; The Half-Finished Heaven; For the Living and the Dead; Night Vision; and Windows and Stars. For many years after being seriously debilitated by a stroke, Tranströmer continued write. He was also an avid pianist and released a recording of classical piano pieces performed with his left hand. Tranströmer received numerous public recognitions for his poetry including the Neustadt International Prize for Literature, the Bonnier Award for Poetry, Germany's Petrarch Prize, the Bellman Prize, the Swedish Academy's Nordic Prize, the August Prize, and a Lifetime Recognition Award in 2007 from The Griffin Trust. In 2011 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.