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Fortunately, Bloodaxe Books, the major British and European publisher of Tranströmer books in English, commissioned a documentary that captured events as they unfolded on October 6, 2011, the day that Tomas Tranströmer won the Nobel Prize for Literature. The previous August, British documentary filmmaker Pamela Robertson-Pearce filmed Tranströmer in his apartment playing the piano. Robin Fulton’s translations appear as subtitles for the Swedish-language readings Tranströmer recorded prior to a stroke in 1990 which rendered him speechless. The poems in Swedish include “The Nightingale in Badelunda,” “Allegro,” “From the Thaw on 1966,” “The Half-Finished Heaven,” “April and Silence,” “From March 1979,” and “Tracks.”
Tomas Tranströmer 
Thanks for sharing a great moment of the poets life.
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I feel fortunate, peeking through your half open door.
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This is very beautiful, what astonishingly lovely music from one hand only!
The poems capture so much detail and feeling in so few words, a true economy of writing (and feeling).
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