Tomas Tranströmer, Delfin's favourite poet, and his Russian editions since the 1970s

Incidentally, Delfin names the Swede Tomas Tranströmer as his favourite poet. Now there is a man of remarkable destiny: a psychologist by profession who became a professional pianist and poet, all the while engaged in literature from his youth, and who won worldwide poetic recognition only after an accident that robbed him of speech and of the use of the right side of his body. Tranströmer is the winner of the 2011 Nobel Prize and of many other prizes. And, dear Delfin, allow me to correct you: more than one book by Tranströmer has been published in Russian, at least ten off the top of my head, and in the USSR the Swedish innovator and mystic among poets was being published long before he became a Nobel laureate, as early as the 1970s. After 2011, when he received the Nobel, it is true that only one translation of his appeared in Russian. On the whole, though, there are some quite interesting editions, and some contentious rhymed translations that the literary community did not accept, but which were appreciated by, for instance, Joseph Brodsky. In short, Andrey, I can even give you an old little book that you do not yet have, and it would be a pleasure for me