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Harry Martinson (1929–1940) Moa Martinson, born Helga Maria Swarts sometimes spelt Swartz, (2 November 1890 – 5 August 1964) was one of Sweden's most noted authors of proletarian literature. [w 1] Her ambition was to change society with her authorship and to portray the conditions of the working class, and also the personal development of ...
Moa Martinson, egentligen Helga Maria Martinson, född Swartz den 2 november 1890 i Vårdnäs församling, Östergötland, [ 1] död 5 augusti 1964 i Sorunda församling i Södermanland, [ 2] var en svensk författare. [ 3][ 4] Moa Martinson är en av de mest berömda proletärförfattarna, som framträdde under 1920- och 30-talen.
Moa Martinson (born Nov. 2, 1890, Vardnass, Swed.—died Aug. 5, 1964, Södertälje) was a Swedish novelist who was among the first to write about the agricultural labourer, the landless worker of the Swedish countryside known as statare. The first half of her life was filled with poverty and misery, yet she retained an ability to write about ...
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Martinson, Moa (1890–1964)Swedish proletarian-feminist, political activist, syndicalist sympathizer and experimental modernist writer whose literary reputation has been overshadowed by her husband's fame as a poet . Name variations: Helga Svartz. Pronunciation: MO-wah MAR-tin-son.
Helga Maria (Moa) Martinson. 1890 - 1964. Sweden. Helga (Moa) Martinson was the daughter of an unmarried textile worker and trained as a sandwich maker before she moved in with a paviour, Karl Johansson, who was the father of the five sons she bore between 1910 and 1916. In 1922 she began to write for the anarchist left-wing press and in 1927 ...
Moa Martinson, born Helga Maria Swarts sometimes spelt Swartz, was one of Sweden's most noted authors of proletarian literature. Her ambition was to change society with her authorship and to portray the conditions of the working class, and also the personal development of women. Her works were about motherhood, love, poverty, politics, religion, urbanization and the hard living conditions of ...
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ISBN: 9780935312386. Publication Date: 06-01-1985. Translated by Margaret S. Lacy. This autobiographical first novel of working-class life by Moa Martinson, the "Agnes Smedley of Sweden," follows two young women, both victims of sexual abuse, as they become friends and determine to gain for themselves and their children the rights and ...
