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The award of the Nobel Prize in Literature to Tomas Tranströmer "is a triumph for poetry," welcomes the Dagens Nyheter. The award given to the poet on October 6th by the Swedish Academy, the first for a Swede since 1974, recognises a body of work that "has evolved in harmony with modern Sweden, never separately from it, but taking it in with a sidelong glance.”
It is no coincidence, notes the newspaper, that one of his poems was read in 2003 at one the recent events that have most strongly marked the country, the funeral of the assassinated foreign minister Anna Lindh. “The Nobel Prize this year,” it continues, “is a triumph for poetry as a way of life, for its ability to shine a light into the lives of ordinary people."
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