Sweden is mourning the dying of considered one of its most well-known literary figures, the Nobel Prize-winning poet Tomas Transtromer.
Members of the Nobel academy say the 83-year-old handed away after struggling a stroke.
He received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2011, the primary for the prize’s homeland since 1974.
An earlier stroke in 1990 left Transtromer partially paralysed and he had issue talking.
HIs poems have been variously described as surreal and lyrical.
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