Sweden’s Transtromer wins 2011 Nobel Literature prize

STOCKHOLM, (Reuters) – Swedish poet Tomas Transtromer  won the 2011 Nobel prize for literature, the awarding committee  said today.
The Swedish Academy said the poet, 80, had won “because,  through his condensed, translucent 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.   ($1 = 6.916 Swedish Crowns)