The Swedish poet Tomas Tranströmer, who won the Nobel prize for literature in 2011, has died in Stockholm at the age of 83. His sparse, no-frills output was highly praised from the moment his first collection, 17 Poems, appeared in 1954. He had lost the power of speech after a stroke in 1990, but continued to write poetry, and to play the piano with his left hand. Tranströmer, a socialist, humanist and atheist, once wrote: “Don’t be ashamed because you’re human. Be proud! Inside you, vaults behind vaults open endlessly. You will never be finished, and that’s as it should be.”

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