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''For the Living and the Dead'' ( sv, För levande och döda) is a 1989 collection of poetry by the Swedish writer
Tomas Tranströmer Tomas Gösta Tranströmer (; 15 April 1931 – 26 March 2015) was a Swedish poet, psychologist and translator. His poems captured the long Swedish winters, the rhythm of the seasons and the palpable, atmospheric beauty of nature. Tranströmer's ...
. It received the
Nordic Council Literature Prize The Nordic Council Literature Prize is awarded for a work of literature written in one of the languages of the Nordic countries, that meets "high literary and artistic standards". Established in 1962, the prize is awarded every year, and is worth ...
. Its 1996 translation into English by Canadian author
Don Coles Donald L. Coles (April 12, 1927 – November 29, 2017) was a Canadian poet and novelist. He won the 1993 Governor General's Award for English poetry for his collection ''Forests of the Medieval World'' and the Trillium Book Award in 2000 for his co ...
won the
John Glassco Translation Prize The John Glassco Translation Prize is an annual Canadian literary award, presented by the Literary Translators' Association of Canada to a book judged the year's best translation into either English or French of a work originally written in any l ...
in 1997.


See also

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1989 in literature This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1989. Events * February 14 – Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, Supreme Leader of Iran (died 3 June 1989), issues a fatwa calling for the death of Indian-born British ...
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Swedish literature Swedish literature () refers to literature written in the Swedish language or by writers from Sweden. The first literary text from Sweden is the Rök runestone, carved during the Viking Age circa 800 AD. With the conversion of the land to Chris ...


References

1989 poetry books Poetry by Tomas Tranströmer Swedish poetry collections Albert Bonniers Förlag books Nordic Council's Literature Prize-winning works {{Poetry-collection-stub