STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Swedish poet Tomas Transtromer won the 2011 Nobel prize for literature, the awarding committee said on Thursday.
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 (953,000 pounds) 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)
(Reporting by Patrick Lannin and Simon Johnson)
