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Swedish Nobel literature laureate Transtromer dies
March 27, 2015

Swedish poet Tomas Transtromer, winner of the Nobel prize for literature, has died, daily Svenska Dagbladet reported on Friday, citing a member of the Swedish Academy. Transtromer won the prestigious award in 2011, pleasing many in the prize's homeland which had not celebrated a winner since Eyvind Johnson and Harry Martinson took home the prize in 1974.
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