Swedish poet Tomas Tranströmer dies aged 83

Nobel Prize winner and psychologist passes away in Stockholm after a short illness

The Swedish poet Tomas Tranströmer, who won the Nobel prize for literature in 2011, died in Stockholm on Thursday at the age of 83. He had lost the power of speech after a stroke in 1990, but continued to write poetry, and to play the piano with his left hand.

For most of his life, he worked part-time as an industrial psychologist and the rest of the time as a poet.

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