Tomas Tranströmer announced as the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature

Tomas Tranströmer, a Swedish poet, has won the Nobel prize for Literature. I didn't have any idea who he was until I saw the link to the below poem, which I remember from Mum's handwritten collection. The judges claimed that "condensed translucent images, he gives us fresh access to reality", which I think this illustrates perfectly:

Tracks

2 am: moonlight. The train has stopped

out in the middle of the plain. Far away, points of light in a town,

flickering coldly at the horizon.

As when a man has gone into a dream so deep

he'll never remember having been there

when he comes back to his room.

As when someone has gone into an illness so deep

everything his days were becomes a few flickering points, a swarm,

cold and tiny at the horizon.

The train is standing quite still.

2 am: bright moonlight, few stars.