Critic's Notebook: Tomas Tranströmer's spare, elegant genius

The Swedish poet, who won this year's Nobel Prize in literature, is a student of the human condition.I was hoping for Bob Dylan. Briefly, on Wednesday afternoon, the singer was favored to win the Nobel Prize for literature by the British odds-maker Ladbrokes, which has handicapped the Nobels for many years. In second place was the Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami; in third, the Syrian poet Adonis.

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