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I should amend that to something like he only began to be widely translated towards the end of his life. On 19 October 2016 at 21:17, David Bircumshaw <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Not a university teacher (or any other kind) but I've known about > Szymborska and Tranströmer for years. > > Long been mildly puzzled that the Swedes never gave the marvelous Gunnar > Ekelöf the award: although he was reputed to have turned up drunk on the > only occasion he attended the Swedish Academy I think he garnered most of > the other Svensk prizes. Perhaps it was because he died relatively young > and before he had been much translated. > > > -- > David Joseph Bircumshaw > > The Animal Subsides http://www.arrowheadpress.co.uk/books/animal.html > Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/david.bircumshaw > Tumblr: http://zantikus.tumblr.com/ > twitter: http://twitter.com/bucketshave > blog: http://groggydays.blogspot.com/ > -- David Joseph Bircumshaw The Animal Subsides http://www.arrowheadpress.co.uk/books/animal.html Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/david.bircumshaw Tumblr: http://zantikus.tumblr.com/ twitter: http://twitter.com/bucketshave blog: http://groggydays.blogspot.com/