Poetry
Song
Dec 14, 2016 |
By Tomas Tranströmer |
Translated
from Swedish
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.