Harry Martinson
Swedish writer (1904–1978)
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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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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…
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