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- Harry Martinson (born May 6, 1904, Jämshög, Swed.—died Feb. 11, 1978, Stockholm) was a Swedish novelist and poet who was the first self-taught, working-class writer to be elected to the Swedish Academy (1949). With Eyvind Johnson he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1974.
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Harry Martinson (6 May 1904 – 11 February 1978) was a Swedish writer, poet and former sailor. In 1949 he was elected into the Swedish Academy. He was awarded a joint Nobel Prize in Literature in 1974 together with fellow Swede Eyvind Johnson "for writings that catch the dewdrop and reflect the cosmos". [1]
May 2, 2024 · Harry Martinson (born May 6, 1904, Jämshög, Swed.—died Feb. 11, 1978, Stockholm) was a Swedish novelist and poet who was the first self-taught, working-class writer to be elected to the Swedish Academy (1949). With Eyvind Johnson he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1974.
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Harry Martinson. (born May 6, 1904, Jämshög, Swed.—died Feb. 11, 1978, Stockholm), Swedish novelist and poet who was the first self-taught, working-class writer to be elected to the Swedish Academy (1949). With Eyvind Johnson he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1974.
Aniara (Swedish: Aniara: en revy om människan i tid och rum) is a book-length epic science fiction poem written by Swedish Nobel laureate Harry Martinson from 1953 to 1956. It narrates the tragedy of a large passenger spacecraft carrying a cargo of colonists escaping destruction on Earth veering off course, leaving the Solar System and ...
- Harry Martinson
- 1956
Martinson’s writings mirror many of the great issues of the 20th century. These are social injustices and dictatorships, war and peace, commercial culture and the culture of the automobile, nuclear weapons and environmental destruction. Motifs from modern science find their way into his poetry.
Facts. Photo from the Nobel Foundation archive. Harry Martinson. The Nobel Prize in Literature 1974. Born: 6 May 1904, Jämshög, Sweden. Died: 11 February 1978, Stockholm, Sweden. Residence at the time of the award: Sweden. Prize motivation: “for writings that catch the dewdrop and reflect the cosmos”. Language: Swedish.
Feb 12, 1978 · Harry Edmund Martinson, the Swedish poet and novelist who shared the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1974 with Eyvind Johnson, his novelist colleague and countryman, died yesterday in Stockholm...
