The 2011 award, announced this morning, went to Swedish poet Tomas Transtromer, 80. Like many winners, Transtromer had been rumored for years as the likely laureate.

The 2011 award, announced this morning, went to Swedish poet Tomas Transtromer, 80. Like many winners, Transtromer had been rumored for years as the likely laureate.

Even before he won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2011, the Swedish poet Tomas Transtromer had devotees in America: His haunting coastal scenes, sad quips, quick cuts and sudden silences came ...

(CBS) Eighty-year-old Tomas Transtromer may have suffered a stroke that left him half-paralyzed and unable to speak, but he was still able to communicate volumes through his poetry. The Swedish ...

Swedish poet Tomas Transtromer, who won the Nobel Prize in literature in 2011, has died. He was 83. The reclusive, mild-mannered wordsmith — considered a master of metaphor and one of the most ...

Swedish poet Tomas Transtromer is the 2011 Nobel laureate in literature, it was just announced. In its statement, the Nobel committee said his work "gives us fresh access to reality." Our friends ...

STOCKHOLM — Swedish poet and Nobel Literature Prize winner Tomas Transtromer has died at age 83, Swedish publisher Bonniers said Friday.

Nobel Prize-winning Swedish poet Tomas Transtromer has died at age 83. According to the Nobel Prize’s Twitter account, Transtromer died Thursday. Long one of Sweden’s most celebrated poets ...

The 2011 award, announced this morning, went to Swedish poet Tomas Transtromer, 80. Like many winners, Transtromer had been rumored for years as the likely laureate.