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 https://cdn.standardmedia.co.ke/images, he gives us fresh access to reality."

The prize of 10 million Swedish crowns ($1.45 million) was the fourth of this year's Nobel prizes, following awards for medicine on Monday, physics on Tuesday and chemistry on Wednesday.

(Reuters)