Tomas Tranströmer

Novellix – stora ord i litet format. Vid glädje och sorg, i möten och avsked, vid högtider och de stora ögonblicken som formar våra liv – i alla dessa stunder kan poesin sätta ord på det vi känner. Samlade kring fyra teman rymmer denna ask över 70 av våra mest älskade dikter. Här möter vi poeter som Karin Boye, Edith Södergran, Tomas Tranströmer, Pär Lagerkvist och Nils Ferlin, vars dikter följt generationer av läsare. Ord att läsa, återvända till och bära med sig hela livet. Innehåller fyra böcker: ”Vart ord av dig” och 21 andra dikter om kärlek och längtan ”Lyckans minut” och 16 andra dikter om barndom och livets början ”Aftonen” och 17 andra dikter om sorg och saknad ”Min tysta granne” och 15 andra dikter om livet och människan på jorden

Med sitt särpräglade metaforrika språk har Tomas Tranströmer sedan debuten 1954 med 17 dikter befäst sin plats som en av Sveriges största poeter.

Redan på femtiotalet skrev Tomas Tranströmer haikudikter, och i sitt senare författarskap har han flera gånger återkommit till den diktformen. Hans haikudikter har tilltalat läsare världen över, inte minst i haikuns hemland Japan. Tranströmers överraskande bildspråk, som snarare tillhör den moderna poesin än den traditionella haikun, har fått många att se honom som en förnyare av den strikta japanska diktformen. I den här trespråkiga utgåvan – på svenska, engelska och kinesiska – har översättarna Robin Fulton och Göran Malmqvist samlat femtiofem av Tranströmers haikudikter, av vilka några här publiceras för första gången.

Over the course of his career, Tomas Tranströmer - a poet who could look on the barren isolation of Sweden's landscapes and seascapes like no other, and find in them something hauntingly transcendent - emerged as one of the 20th century's essential global voices. By the time he won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2011, his luminous, almost mystical work had been translated into more than 50 languages.Gathering his poems from the early, nature-focused work to the later poetry's widening of the scope to take in painting, travel, urban life, and the impositions of technology on the natural world, and stirred throughout by the poet's profound love of music, The Half-Finished Heaven is a unique selection from Tranströmer's work. It is also, in its way, a deeply intimate one: the poems hand-picked here are not only the most beloved, but also those which were translated in the course of Tranströmer's nearly thirty-year correspondence with his close friend and collaborator, the American poet Robert Bly. Few names are more strongly associated with Tranströmer's; and few people have understood not only his poetry, but the processes behind it, more profoundly. The result is perhaps the best English-language introduction to this great and strange poet's work that there could be.

A handpicked selection of the best-loved poems of Tomas Transtromer - winner of the 2011 Nobel Prize for Literature. Mystical, versatile and sad, the poems (in verse and prose) have earned him international acclaim. A broad retrospective of his work, The Half-Finished Heaven is an excellent English-language introduction to this notable Swedish poet. Widely praised in the US upon publication, it's a book that's not to be missed.

I Tomas Tranströmers kök finns ett skafferi som med åren förvandlats till en arbetande författares arkiv. Här förvaras dagböcker, manuskript, brev och tidningsklipp – ett rikt material som speglar ett liv i det skrivna ordets tjänst. I arbetets utkanter presenterar delar ur denna samling och sträcker sig från Tranströmers barndom fram till idag. Det mesta är tidigare opublicerat, och boken är generöst illustrerad med unika bilder i formgivning av Nina Ulmaja.”I närmare två års tid träffades Tomas, hans hustru Monica och jag regelbundet på Stigbergsgatan för att arbeta oss igenom drivor av material i detta labyrintiska hemarkiv. Tillsammans formade vi en redaktion vars mål var att åstadkomma en blandbok, där flera av författarens skapande sidor skulle lyftas fram. […] Det mesta av urvalet är gjort och sanktionerat av Tomas, som med intresse följde bokens framväxt. Han gladde sig åt projektet, men fick aldrig se det fullbordas. Vid hans bortgång den 26 mars 2015 var så gott som hela boken ändå färdigställd. Det här är därför i allt väsentligt att betrakta som Tomas bok.”Ur inledningen av Magnus Halldin

One day in spring 1964, the young American poet Robert Bly left his rural farmhouse and drove 150 miles to the University of Minnesota library in Minneapolis to obtain the latest book by the young Swedish poet Tomas Transtromer. When Bly returned home that evening with a copy of Transtromer's The Half-Finished Heaven, he found a letter waiting for him from its author. With this remarkable coincidence as its beginning, what followed was a vibrant correspondence between two poets who would become essential contributors to global literature. Airmail collects more than 290 letters, written from 1964 until 1990, when Transtromer suffered a stroke that has left him partially paralysed and diminished his capacity to write. Across their correspondence, the two poets are profoundly engaged with each other and with the larger world: the Vietnam War, European and American elections, and the struggles of affording a life as a writer. Airmail also offers remarkable insights into the processes of translating literature from one language into another. As Bly began to render Transtromer's poetry into English and Transtromer began to translate Bly's poetry into Swedish, their collaboration soon turned into a friendship that has lasted fifty years. Insightful, brilliant, and often funny, Airmail provides a rare portrait of two artists who have become integral to each other's particular genius. Based on the original Swedish edition published in 2001, this publication marks the first time letters by Transtromer and Bly have been made available in Britain. Robert Bly's translations of Tomas Transtromer appear in The Half-Finished Heaven: The Best Poems of Tomas Transtromer, published by Graywolf Press. Transtromer's complete poetry is available in English in Robin Fulton's translation, New Collected Poems, published by Bloodaxe Books (and by New Directions in the US under the title The Great Enigma: New Collected Poems).

The illuminating letters of the National Book Award winning poet Robert Bly and the Nobel Prize winning poet Tomas Transtr mer One day in spring 1964, the young American poet Robert Bly left his rural farmhouse and drove 150 miles to the University of Minnesota library in Minneapolis to obtain the latest book by the young Swedish poet Tomas Transtr mer. When Bly returned home that evening with a copy of Transtr mer's The Half-Finished Heaven, he found a letter waiting for him from its author. With this remarkable coincidence as its beginning, what followed was a vibrant correspondence between two poets who would become essential contributors to global literature. Airmail collects more than 290 letters, written from 1964 until 1990, when Transtr mer suffered a stroke that has left him partially paralyzed and diminished his capacity to write. Across their correspondence, the two poets are profoundly engaged with each other and with the larger world: the Vietnam War, European and American elections, and the struggles of affording a life as a writer. Airmail also illuminates the work of translation as Bly began to render Transtr mer's poetry into English and Transtr mer began to translate Bly's poetry into Swedish. Their collaboration quickly turned into a friendship that has lasted fifty years. Insightful, brilliant, and often funny, Airmail provides a rare portrait of two artists who have become integral to each other's particular genius. This publication marks the first time letters by Bly and Transtr mer have been made available in the United States.

Tomas Tranströmer was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature 2011. He was then the first Swedish writer to become a laureate for almost forty years. This anthology takes an intercontinental perspective on the poetry of Tranströmer. It raises the question of how his poetry is actually perceived in continents predominated by other literary preferences. It also gives insight to the literal appearance of his poetry in essentially different languages. Tranströmer International features a seminar of world poets, placing his poetry in context by relating to their countries of origin: Columbia, Iran and Bangladesh. Ángela García, Azita Ghahreman, Anisur Rahman and Kristian Carlsson-i.e. the main seminar committee-also present one poem each inspired by Tranströmer. And a select working group has translated sample poems of Tranströmer into several world languages, printed alongside the Swedish originals. Most translations are done exclusively for this anthology, and in addition to some new English versions, there are poems in Arabic, Bengali, Farsi, Japanese, Romani, Russian, North Sami, Somali and Spanish.

Med sitt särpräglade metaforrika språk har Tomas Tranströmer sedan debuten 1954 med 17 dikter befäst sin plats som en av Sveriges största poeter. Samlade dikter och prosa 1954 –2004 innehåller Tomas Tranströmers samtliga publicerade diktsamlingar samt prosastycket Minnena ser mig från 1993.

Nyskrivna tonsättningar till Tomas Tranströmers dikter. Bo Hansson: Andrum juli April och tystnad Nils Lindberg: Genom skogen Minnena ser mig Per-Gunnar Petersson: Den stora gåtan (svit på fem satser)

Four poems by Tomas Tranströmer inluding The Blue House (Det blå huset), translated from the Swedish by Göran Malmqvist. (16 pages)

Written a few years after Transtromer suffered a stroke that left him unable tospeak, Memories Look at Me is Tomas Transtromer s lyrical autobiography aboutgrowing up in Sweden. His story opens with a streak of light, a comet that becomesa brilliant metaphor for my life as he tries to penetrate the earliest, formativememories of his past. This childhood life unfolds itself slowly in eight glisteningchapters that gradually reveal the most secret of treasures: how Transtromerdiscovered poetry.

A short selection of haunting, meditative poems from the winner of the 2011 Nobel Prize in Literature Tomas Transtr mer can be clearly recognized not just as Sweden's most important poet, but as a writer of international stature whose work speaks to us now with undiminished clarity and resonance. Long celebrated as a master of the arresting, suggestive image, Transtr mer is a poet of the liminal: drawn again and again to thresholds of light and of water, the boundaries between man and nature, wakefulness and dream. A deeply spiritual but secular writer, his skepticism about humanity is continually challenged by the implacable renewing power of the natural world. His poems are epiphanies rooted in experience: spare, luminous meditations that his extraordinary images split open--exposing something sudden, mysterious, and unforgettable.

Tomas Tranströmer fra Stockholm, født 1931, fikk Nobelprisen i litteratur 2011. Han er en av verdens mest kjente poeter, oversatt til mer enn femti språk. Til norsk ble han introdusert av Jan Erik Vold med Samlede dikt i 1996.Dikt og prosa i samling er en utvidet og oppdatert versjon av Jan Erik Volds tidligere Tranströmer-oversettelser. Boken gjengir hele forfatterskapet 1954–2004, som også rommer poetens selvbiografiske erindringer på prosa.

Tranströmer holder en varig position i den svenske lyrik og har med sin overraskende metaforik og sansemættede strofer hentet inspiration hos blandt andet Liszt og Wagner. Nobelprisen i litteratur 2011 blev tildelt svenske Tomas Tranströmer (f. 1931), digter, oversætter og psykolog. Han har gennem årene udgivet en række digtsamlinger, alle med en stilbevidst forankring i det musikalske, det sanselige og det naturbårne. Døden og erindring er konstante tematikker og forener det nøgterne med det nære og det indsigtsfulde med spinkle idyller. Samlede Tranströmer rummer hele æuvret - bortset fra Air mail - og heri forenes nøgterne, nære, spinkle og indsigtsfulde digte fra et langt og rigt forfatterskab. Hans internationale gennemslagskraft er stor og bøgerne er oversat til 50 sprog. Klassikerudgaven er redigeret af lyrikeren Peter Nielsen, der gennem alle årene har oversat Tranströmer til dansk. Svenska Akademien: » ... Fordi han i fortættede, gennemlyste billeder giver os ny adgang til det virkelige.« Tomas Tranströmer tildeles Nobelprisen i litteratur 2011. Pressen skriver: »Med Samlede Tranströmer i Peter Nielsens fine oversættelse og med forord af Morten Søndergaard bliver forfatterens 80 år smukt markeret på dansk. Tomas Tranströmers stemme bringer en ordløs verden inden for rækkevidde på alle sprog. Så meget poetisk magi samlet på 300 sider.« ****** – Jørgen Johansen, Berlingske Tidende »Her er en mand, der aldrig gav sig. Som satte sin vilje til poesi og musik over rigdom og berømmelse og endte med at blive den berømteste af dem alle. På ord, der kan være i et eneste, enestående bind. Der er grund til at kippe med haydnflaget.« ****** – Thomas Bredsdorff, Politiken

'Mitt liv.' När jag tänker de orden ser jag framför mig en ljusstrimma. Vid närmare betraktande har ljusstrimman formen av en komet med huvud och svans. Den ljusstarkaste ändan, huvudet, är barndomen och uppväxten. Kärnan, dess allra tätaste del, är den mycket tidiga barndomen där de viktigaste dragen i vårt liv bestäms. Jag försöker minnas, jag försöker tränga fram dit. ... Inom mig bär jag mina tidigare ansikten, som ett träd har sina årsringar. Det är summan av dem som är 'jag'. Spegeln ser bara mitt senaste ansikte, jag känner av alla mina tidigare."Tomas Tranströmer har skrivit om sina barn- och ungdomsår på Söder i Stockholm, där han växte upp med sin mamma. I korta minnesfragment berättar han om sin kärlek till museer och bibliotek, om folkskolan, kriget och realskolan, om ungdomens våndor och om gymnasiet, då han började finna vägen till sitt skrivande. Minnena ser mig utkom första gången 1993. Nu kommer den i ny utgåva till Tomas Tranströmers 75-årsdag i april 2006.