Tomorrow Saturday, the Tranströmer Nobel priz

What do you think of the Swedish Academy's reasoning?

- Very good, says Tomas Tranströmer yourself.

What are you writing now?

- You are working on some minor things that the future will tell what you will be dealing with. We'll see, says Monica Tranströmer.

Are you going to celebrate with champagne?

- We hope that when this resurrection is that we will have a quiet moment over to celebrate.

Tranströmer was born in 1931 and raised in Stockholm. He studied psychology and worked for a youth prison, which also had as motives for some of his poems.

Tranströmer debuted with "17 Poems" in 1954 and received by the subsequent poetry collections, a "position as one of the foremost poets of his generation." He has published more than 20 poetry collections and has been translated into some 60 languages.

His poetry is described as casual with a with a touch of mystery and nature poetry. Tranströmer uses charged metaphors with which some religious coloring can be sensed.

The stroke he suffered in 1990 has been partially paralyzed him, affected his speech and also influenced his work. Tranströmer for example, has increasingly left their characteristic long poems in favor of the haiku form. He is also a skilled pianist, but after his stroke play, he usually left hand pieces.

Tranströmer have also made their own interpretations of foreign poetry. His production is for the most part published by Bonnier publishing house.

Tomas Transtromer is the eighth Swedish literature prize and get the first one since Eyvind Johnson and Harry Martinson was awarded the prize in literature 1974th