# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/harry-martinson
# Generated: 2026-08-31T17:37:08.613Z

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description: "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."
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birthDate: "1904-05-06"
deathDate: "1978-02-11"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
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.