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Poetry

Song

Dec 14, 2016 | By Tomas Tranströmer | Translated from Swedish
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The white flock swelled: the swarms of gulls cried out

Author
Tomas Tranströmer

Tomas Tranströmer sold thousands of volumes in his native country, and his work has been translated into more than fifty languages. He was the recipient of the 2011 Nobel Prize for Literature. His other honors and awards include the Aftonbladets Literary Prize, the Bonnier Award for Poetry, the Neustadt International Prize for Literature, the Oevralids Prize, the Petrach Prize in Germany, and the Swedish Award from International Poetry Forum.