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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]
Harry Edmund Martinson, född 6 maj 1904 i Jämshög i Blekinge, död 11 februari 1978 i Solna (vid tiden bosatt i Sollentuna ), var en svensk författare.
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.
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.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Martinson received the Nobel Prize for writings “that catch the dewdrop and reflect the cosmos.”. This is a fitting observation. Although his depictions of the Swedish natural environment and Swedish society are firmly anchored on Swedish soil, Martinson was also a world traveller and a stargazer.
Biographical. Harry Martinson was born at Jämshög in 1904. He was left an orphan at an early age, and after a chequered childhood, in which the children’s homes and institutions were as numerous as the escapes, he went to sea at the age of sixteen, spending six years of his life on board various ships and as a workman in foreign countries.
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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 at...
