# Harry Martinson

> A Swedish sailor turned poet who won the Nobel Prize in 1974 and immediately sparked accusations of cronyism — he was on the committee that awarded it to him. His most lasting work is Aniara, a bleak poem-cycle about a spaceship that drifts forever off course.

*Swedish writer (1904–1978)*

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## Identity
- **Profile type:** Writer / Author
- **Category:** Writers
- **Country:** Sweden
- **Born:** 1904-05-06
- **Died:** 1978-02-11
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

Martinson was born 6 May 1904 and spent years at sea before turning to writing, bringing what critics called a proletarian edge to Swedish verse. By 1949 the establishment had claimed him: he was elected to the Swedish Academy. In 1956 he published Aniara, a poetic narrative of a spacecraft lost in the void, which became an opera three years later with music by Karl-Birger Blomdahl; the cycle has been read as a story of human fragility and folly. Then came 1974, when the Academy gave him and fellow member Eyvind Johnson a shared Nobel Prize "for writings that catch the dewdrop and reflect the cosmos." The decision drew immediate controversy — both laureates sat on the body that had chosen them. Martinson died 11 February 1978.

## Fame
- **Popularity score:** 60.7 / 100
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- **Source confidence:** 70.0 / 100
- **Profile completeness:** 80.0 / 100

## Platforms
- **IMDB**: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0554167/ (@nm0554167)
- **WEBSITE**: https://www.harrymartinson.org

## Topics
#Writers, #Writer / Author, #Literature, #Poetry, #Fiction, #Sweden, #Europe, #20th Century

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