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Among his best-known works are Passad (1945; “Trade Wind”), a collection of poetry; Vägen till Klockrike (1948; The Road), a novel that sympathetically examines the lives of tramps and other social outcasts; and Aniara (1956; Aniara, A Review of Man in Time and Space), an epic poem about space travel that was turned into a successful opera ...
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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
- Sweden
- 1956
- Swedish
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Oct 3, 2022 · Nobel Prize winner Harry Martinson's 1956 epic poem, translated into English from the original Swedish by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg, Aniara tells the story of a doomed spaceship fleeing a ravaged earth. Addeddate. 2022-10-03 15:27:19. Identifier.
Harry Martinson debuted in 1929 with the collection of poems Spökskepp (Ghost Ship), that for the most part employed motifs of the ocean and life as a seaman. The same year he contributed to anthology Fem unga , a ground-breaking and highly influential book in modernist Swedish literature.
- 6 May 1904, Jämshög, Sweden
- Moa Martinson (1929–1940), Ingrid Lindcrantz (1942–1978)
- 11 February 1978 (aged 73), Stockholm, Sweden
The poem “Dusk in the Country,” from 1945, is one of the finest examples of Martinson’s evocative nature poems: The riddle silently sees its image. It spins evening among the motionless reeds.
Martinson, H. (1998) Aniara: An Epic Science Fiction Poem. Translated from the Swedish by Klass, S. & Sjoberg, L. USA: Story Line Press. Cover of Aniara from Sjoberg’s translation
