biography
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Martinson, Harry (Edmund)
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| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1904–78)
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| biography:
| Poet and novelist, born in Jämshög, S Sweden. After a harsh childhood as parish orphan, he went to sea as a stoker in 1919 and travelled worldwide, before making his name as a poet. His autobiographical novels include Nässlorna blomma (1935, Flowering Nettle), and Vägen ut (1936, The Way Out). His poetic space epic, Aniara (1956), was set to music as an opera by Karl-Birger Blomdahl. He was elected to the Swedish Academy in 1949, and he shared the 1974 Nobel Prize for Literature with Eyvind Johnson. |
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