Harry edmund martinson biography of martin

  • Harry Martinson (6 May 1904 – 11 February 1978) was a Swedish writer, poet and former sailor.
  • Harry Martinson was a Swedish novelist and poet who was the first self-taught, working-class writer to be elected to the Swedish Academy.
  • PERSONAL: Born May 6, 1904, in Jämshög, Blekinge, Sweden; died, February 11, 1978, in Stockholm, Sweden; son of Martin (a sea captain) and Bengta.

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    Martinson, Harry (6 May 1904 - 11 February 1978)

    Paul Norlén
    University of Washington

    Letters

    Biographies

    References

    Papers

    1974 Nobel Prize in Literature Presentation Speech

    Martinson: Banquet Speech

    This entry was expanded bygd Norlén from his Martinson entry in DLB 259: Twentieth-Century Swedish Writers Before World War II.

    BOOKS: Fem unga: Unglitterär antologi, bygd Martinson, Artur Lundkvist, Erik Asklund, Josef Kjellgren, and Gustav Sandgren (Stockholm: Bonnier, 1929);

    Spökskepp (Stockholm: Bonnier, 1929);

    Nomad (Stockholm: Bonnier, 1931);

    Resor utan mål (Stockholm: Bonnier, 1932);

    Kap Farväl! (Stockholm: Bonnier, 1933); translated bygd Naomi Walford as Cape Farewell (London: Cresset, 1934; New York: Putnam, 1934);

    Natur (Stockholm: Bonnier, 1934);

    Nässlorna blomma (Stockholm: Bonnier, 1935); translated by Walford as Flowering Nettle (London: Cresset, 1936);

    Vägen ut (Stockholm: Bonnier, 1936);

    Svärmare och harkrank (Stockholm: Bonnier,

  • harry edmund martinson biography of martin

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    Harry Martinson

    Swedish writer

    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] The choice was controversial, as both Martinson and Johnson were members of the academy.[2]

    He has been called "the great reformer of 20th-century Swedish poetry, the most original of the writers called 'proletarian'."[3] One of his most noted works is the poetic cycle Aniara, which is a story of the spacecraft Aniara that during a journey through space loses its course and subsequently floats on without destination. The book was published in 1956 and became an opera in 1959 composed by Karl-Birger Blomdahl.[4][5] The cycle has been described as "an epic story of man

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    Harry Edmund (Martinsson) Martinson (1904 - 1978)

    Harry Edmund(Harry)Martinson formerly Martinsson

    Born in Jämshög, Blekinge, Sweden
    Ancestors

    Son of Martin Olofsson and Bengta (Svensdotter) Swensson

    Brother of Ragnhild Aurora (Martinsson) Larsson

    [children unknown]

    Died at age 73in Solna, Stockholms län, (AB), Sweden

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    Biography

    Harry (Martinsson) Martinson is Notable.

    Harry (Martinsson) Martinson lived in Sweden

    • Harry Martinson was born in Jämshög, Blekinge on May 6, 1904. [1]
    • His parents were Betty and Martin Olofsson. He lost them both early, his father died of pulmonary tuberculosis in 1910 and his mother emigrated to the United States the following year.
    • Harry was fostered out from about the age of 6 to the lowest bidder. Since he often ran away he grew up in several different families. His experiences are reflected in his partly autobiographical nove