Tomas Tranströmer

Swedish poet who received the Nobel Prize in Literature (2011) — and who worked as a psychologist at a rehabilitation institution — whose spare, imagistic poems are among the most widely translated in world literature and whose imagery has strong affinities with Jungian depth psychology.

Creates the most powerful poetry of the unconscious in contemporary Scandinavian literature — Tranströmer's poems consistently move between the surface world and some deeper, darker layer beneath it, using precise natural imagery (trees, rooms, water, snow) to make visible the numinous presence of the unconscious.