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Sweden's Transtromer wins 2011 Nobel Literature prize

STOCKHOLM - Swedish poet Tomas Transtromer won the 2011 Nobel prize for literature, the awarding committee said on Thursday.

The Swedish Academy said the poet, 80, had won "because, through his condensed, translucent images, he gives us fresh access to reality."

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